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Introduction: COVID-19 pandemic has made significant changes in life. Sedentary lifestyle, increased usage of gadget, and increased sitting duration could lead to body weight and nutritional status changes. This study aimed to analyze the differences of sitting and screen time with weight changes and body mass index (BMI). Methods:: Online cross-sectional survey performed among 401 individuals older than 18 years in Surabaya. Self-administered questionnaire included questions related to sedentary activities, namely sitting and using gadget duration in a day. Self-reported weight and height before and during pandemic were used to calculate BMI before and during COVID-19 pandemic. Data analysis used the Chi-square test. Results: Study found that 47.9% of respondents did not experience significant changes in their body weight before and during COVID-19 pandemic. People who experienced no change in their body weight spent less than 6 hours sitting (50.8%) and people who experienced weight loss spent more than six hours using their gadgets (59.3%). It also found that 44.6% of respondents had normal nutritional status where 45.3% used gadgets with a duration of more than 6 hours and 45.8% used the time to sit for less than 6 hours. Body weight changes and BMI changes are not significantly different compared to sitting time (p-value=0.692) and screen time (p-value=0.099) during COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusion: There are no association between screen time and sitting time to body weight and BMI during pandemic COVID-19. © 2022 UPM Press. All rights reserved.
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Introduction: This study was aimed to analyze the effectiveness of the emergency activity restriction policy implementation to slow down the daily incidence and mortality of COVID-19 in the East Java Province of Indonesia. Methods: An ecological study design was used for this research as the data were acquired from the daily confirmed cases and mortality reports of COVID-19 in 29 regencies and 9 cities in East Java Province of Indonesia from June 14 to July 25, 2021. Interrupted time series using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) was used for the analysis. Results: The mean of COVID-19 daily incidence and mortality was increasing during the implementation of emergency public activity restriction. The result of the ARIMA interrupted time series reported that the implementation of emergency public activity restriction significantly (P < 0.05) affects the increase of COVID-19 daily incidence in 18 cities and daily mortality in 9 cities. Analysis on the provincial level showed that there was no reduction both in daily incidence and mortality during the implementation of emergency public activity restriction. Conclusion: The study reported that the implementation of emergency public activity restrictions was not beneficial in reducing COVID-19 daily incidence and mortality in the East Java Province of Indonesia during the 1 st month of policy implementation. © 2022 Medknow. All rights reserved.
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Background: West Java is one of Indonesia’s provinceswith a large and dense population, making it vulnerable to quarantine or restrictions related to COVID-19.The study aims to analyze the determinants of the COVID-19 psychosocial burden in West Java Province, Indonesia. Methods:The author collected data by online survey until it gets 653 respondents. The study reviewed psychosocial burdens by worries level. The study built the worries based on anxiety in five daily aspects: economic, religion, education, work, and social aspects. Six independent variables were involved in the analysis, including age, gender, marital status, education, employment status, and religion. In the final stage, the study carried out a multivariate test using binary logistic regression. Results:The results found that women were 0.544 times more likely than men to experience high worries (OR 0.544;95% CI 0.330-0.896). Men are more likely than women to experience the psychosocial burden of COVID-19.Higher education has a probability of 0.405 times compared to secondary education to experience high worries (OR 0.405;95% CI 0.240-0.685). Higher education levels are a protective factor against the psychosocial burden of COVID-19 in West Java Province, Indonesia. Conclusion:The study concluded that there are two determinants of the COVID-19 psychosocial burden in West Java, Indonesia. Both are gender and education status.
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Psychosocial burden as a result of the risk of decreasing income and the possibility of being laid off from work is a problem that must be faced by workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was aimed at analyzing predictors of psychosocial burden among workers during the co-19 pandemic period. A total of 6,053 worker respondents were involved in this study. The psychosocial burden was reviewed based on the worries level. There were 4 independent variables involved in the analysis, including age, gender, marital, and education. A multivariate test was performed using binary logistic regression. The results found that the workers in the ≤ 19 age group were 1.900 times more likely than the≥ 50 age group to experience a psychosocial burden. The workers in the 40-49 age group were 1.523 times more likely than the ≥50 age group. Male workers were 0.693 times more likely than female workers to experience a psychosocial burden. The higher education workers were 0.563 times more likely than workers with secondary education. It could be concluded that the 3 variables were proven as predictors of the psychosocial burden among workers during the COVID-19 pandemic period in Indonesia, namely age, gender, and education.
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Several previous studies have found that women are more susceptible to psychosocial burden than men. The study was aimed at analyzing the influence of having a husband/partner on the psychosocial burden of COVID-19 among women in Indonesia. The study involved 5,061 women collected through a rapid online survey. The psychosocial burden was reviewed based on worries level on 5 aspects of daily life, namely economic, religious, educational, employment, and social aspects. Four independent variables were included in the analysis, including husband/partner ownership, age group, education level, and employment status. A multivariate test using the binary logistic regression was done at the final stage. The results show that women who have a husband/partner have a risk of 1.377 times compared to women who do not have husbands/partners to experience worries. Women in the 40-49 age group had 0.630 times the risk of women with ≤ 19 age groups to experience worries. Meanwhile, women with the ≥ 50 age groups had a 0.327 times risk than women with the ≤ 19 age groups for experiencing worries. Women with higher education have a risk of 0.610 times compared to women with secondary education for experiencing worries. It could be concluded that having a soulmate is a risk factor for women to experience the psychosocial burden of COVID-19 in Indonesia. The analysis also found that younger age and lower education were risk factors for women to experience the psychosocial burden of COVID-19 in Indonesia. © 2021, Institute of Medico-Legal Publications. All rights reserved.