Exploration of loneliness linked with automatic thoughts during COVID-19 outbreak

COVID-19 outbreak decreases the amount of daily routine and lifestyle. Loneliness is stemming from a deficiency of social contact and social connectedness. As a result, adolescents are prone to loneliness during the outbreak. In addition, loneliness influences the emerging automatic thoughts in the cognitive domain. This research aims to explore the psychological perspective on loneliness experienced by adolescents during the COVID-19 outbreak. The research was conducted on 165 adolescents aged 12 -18 who actively engage in social media. Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA) was used to obtain the data. The Z-score shows that social loneliness has a more significant effect on adolescents. The study indicated that loneliness is associated with automatic thoughts and need fulfilments. Participants' automatic thoughts are acquired and discussed further. © 2023 Author(s).

Model of Visualization and Analytics for Open Data (Case: Election Voters & Kids Disability Category)

Several regional head elections had to be postponed due to the pandemic, including in Indonesia because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several big cities in Indonesia are of concern because of their large population and GDP. This study conducts analysis and testing of datasets taken from Open Data in a city in Indonesia. In addition to conducting research on regional head elections, we also present information on voters from the category of kids with disabilities. The steps used in this research are using regional mapping data of the city of Surabaya in the Election of the Regional Head. Download the data or dataset for the Regional Head Election ampersand Categories of kids with disabilities. Based on the dataset voters from the category of children with disabilities are more than 5 percent.In this research, we use Python to process our datasets & Big Data technology. Data cleaning or cleansing, Exploratory Data Analysis, and Empirical Cumulative Distribution Functions (ECDF) in python are also needed. Result from ECDF chart with steady increase (increment of 0.1). The highest variance value is in Electoral District 5 = 6.090 and the lowest value is in Electoral District 4 = 0.90. The result of Open Data is graphical data visualization and candidate scores to help as an alternative for the 2024 Regional Head Election and the Category of kids with disabilities. © 2023 IEEE.

Consumer Attitudes Towards Food Attributes Due to the Dynamics of Supply Shock Covid 19

Regional lockdown policies and work-from-home patterns have led to changes in consumer behavior and household food purchases. This study aims to determine consumer attitudes towards food attributes due to the dynamics of supply shock due to Covid 19. This study was conducted in Jember Regency using a sample of 100 respondents spread across urban and rural areas. This study uses Fishbein analysis to determine consumer attitudes towards food attributes due to the Covid 19 pandemic. The results of the analysis show that consumption patterns change during the pandemic. These changes include the number of purchases, changes in the place of purchase, and the frequency of purchases. The price attribute has a high level of importance but has low performance. The food price attribute needs attention from the government so that people can access food. The attribute of ease of access has a high level of importance and high trust from consumers. The stock attribute has a high level of importance but has sufficient trust from the public. In addition, quality or brand attributes have a low level of importance but have a relatively high level of trust from the public. © 2023 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.

Applying the behavior change wheel to identify pandemic-related attitudes and feelings about physical activity as predictors of physical activity level among university students in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic

A recent systematic review found a significant drop in physical activity (PA) among university students during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Identifying students’ attitudes and feelings about PA and coronavirus, which could facilitate or hinder PA, is essential to guide intervention planning. Therefore, this study aimed to examine attitudes and feelings about PA and coronavirus as predictors of PA levels. We conducted a cross-sectional study among undergraduate university students in Indonesia to collect their PA levels using the global PA questionnaire version 2 and their attitudes and feelings about PA in pandemic situations. A binomial logistic regression has been conducted to predict whether students will sufficiently engage in PA based on their attitudes and feelings related to PA, coronavirus, and demographic characteristics. Results from 588 undergraduate students (75% female) showed that students perceived the health benefits of PA, perceived feeling guilty about wanting to do PA during the pandemic, body mass index (BMI), and field of study were statistically significant predictors of PA levels. An increase of one unit of perceived health benefits of PA increases the odds of meeting the PA guidelines by 2.313 (95% confidence interval 1.708–3.132, p < 0.001). On the other hand, raising one point of feeling guilty about conducting PA was associated with 1.285 times lower odds (95% confidence interval 1.062–1.558, p = 0.01) of meeting the PA guidelines. Thus, intervention should increase students’ awareness of the physical health benefits of PA during the pandemic and reduce their feeling of guilty about conducting the PA. Copyright © 2022 Wibowo, Sofyana and Agustiningsih.

Understanding of employees' performing professional duties at home: A qualitative study

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine the eustress and distress of employees during the pandemic. Method. The participants of this study were the employees who work from home during COVID-19. Semi-structured interviews were applied to 21 employees from various public institutions and private companies in the Jakarta area. This study is qualitative research;the choice of this design is to study the phenomena that occur among employees when faced with a pandemic condition and are required to change the way they work and maintain the independence of research results. Findings. Workload, poor communication, and work pressure are types of distress experienced by participants. The way how employees perceive and how to adapt these parameters of distress depends on setting work priority scales. However, they also have the influence of positive stress in sharing time with family and flextime. The participants, little by little, can divide their time and finish the work on time. From this study, it can be concluded that most of the participants chose the work priority scale as an essential part of this issue vital in this case. With the passage of time, the workers will be more active in the way they solve problems. The pandemic will not end soon, but the ability to start a new life (new normal) is a necessary to survive.

Changes in Physical Activity Among University Students in Indonesia from Before to During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Cohort Study

University life is an important phase for forming healthy physical activity habits among university students. However, little is known about the change in physical activity level during the COVID-19 pandemic among university students in Indonesia, which has a low stringency index. A retrospective cohort study was conducted among students of Universitas Gadjah Mada (n=153) from October to November 2020, where there were asked to recall their physical activity level and type of physical activity engaged in at four points of time: before the pandemic, early pandemic, Ramadan period, and relaxation period. Then, we conducted three-way mixed analyses of variance followed by Bonferroni's post hoc comparisons tests to compare the mean difference of total moderate-vigorous physical activity with a subject over time and between subgroups in a similar time. Containment measures during the pandemic resulted in a 69.4-minute drop (95% confidence interval: 40.1 to 98.7 minutes, p<.001) of total moderate-vigorous physical activity. While the relaxation of containment measures could restore non-health natural science students' physical activity to the pre-pandemic amount, it did not influence health science students' physical activity. Our findings provide evidence that pandemic situations in a low stringency index country also affected physical activity behavior among university students. More efforts are needed to increase university students' physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among health science students. © 2022. All Rights Reserved.

Physical Activity and Nutritional Status of College Students During Covid-19 Pandemic

Introduction: The Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) has been carried out in Indonesia in early 2020 as an effort to prevent the global spread of Covid-19. The enforcement of distant learning can cause other problems, such as increased sedentary behaviour and obesity. This study aimed to analyse the physical activity and nutritional status of West Java college students during the Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: This study used a cross-sectional study design and conducted 1-2 months after the enforcement of the Large-Scale Social Restrictions in West Java. 330 students from 11 universities volunteered to become respondents of the study by filling out a questionnaire on Google Form. The IPAQ instrument was used to determine the level of physical activity and BMI to find out the nutritional status. Data were analysed by using the multinomial logistic regression. Results: The results showed 73.3% students have normal nutritional status and 40.6% performed the vigorous physical activity. Nutritional status did not correlate with physical activity of students (p=0.555, p> 0.5) but correlate with characteristics and physical activity as a model (p=0.021, p< 0.05). Study program partially correlate with nutritional status (p=0.008, p<0.05). Conclusion: The study concludes that age, sex, study program, and physical activity had a significant effect on nutritional status, although physical activity did not partially affect them. © 2021 UPM Press. All rights reserved.

Association between hypertension and inhospital mortality in COVID-19 patients

Background: Indonesia reported ≥1 million cases of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) with remarkable number of deaths. Notably, hypertension's status as predictor for poorer outcome remains debatable. Objective: We aim to investigate the association between in-hospital mortality and hypertension in COVID-19 patients. Methods: A retrospective study using adult (≥18 years old), confirmed COVID-19 patients' medical record at Cibabat General Hospital, Cimahi, West Java, Indonesia between September to December 2020 was conducted. Patient's gender, age, hospital-stay length, comorbidities (type 2 diabetes mellitus, coronary artery diseases, arrythmia, kidney diseases, respiratory diseases, and stroke), and outcomes were collected. Hypertension was defined as hypertension history before the infection. Chi-square and logistic regression analysis were conducted to understand the association between hypertension and mortality. Results: A total of 205 patients were included, 117 (57.1%) were males, of whom 40 (19.5%) died and 165 (80.5%) were discharged. The mean value of the patients' age was 53.7±13.8 years old, and the median hospitalization-day was 11 (range: 1-45) days. Hypertension was the most common comorbidity (n=72;35.1% patients);13 (18.1%) were dead and 59 (81.9%) survived. A chi-square test showed no statistically significant difference between mortality and hypertension, X2(1, N=205) =0.15, p=0.70;OR: 0.87, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.42-1.80. Logistic regression analysis reveals that patient's age is the only statistically significant factor for death in this study (P <0.05;OR: 1.05, 95% CI 1.02-1.08). Conclusion: Hypertension is not associated with mortality in COVID-19 patients. Further investigations including larger sample size and more possible variables are warranted to understand this relationship further.