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Background. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced the status of a global pandemic for the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Pregnant women are most vulnerable to being infected with COVID-19 and must take extra care of their health. The impact and risk of COVID-19 on pregnant and lactating women as well as on the fetus and baby are not yet known with certainty. However, due to changes in body shape and immune system, pregnant women are very susceptible to some res-piratory infections. Objective. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of antenatal care (ANC) services in Probolinggo Regency. Methods. This analytic research has a cross-sectional design. The participants are 326 pregnant women in the third trimester. Sampling uses simple random sampling. The sample is some pregnant women in the third trimester, as many as 179 people. Chi- square is used for analysis. Results. According to the study's findings, as many as 170 respondents did not confirm that they had COVID-19 (95%). 153 respondents were provided with quality ANC services (85%). Conclusion. The results of the statistical test obtained a value of P=0.09;so there is an influence during the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of ANC services. Efforts that can be made are health workers limit meetings with pregnant women without reducing the quality of ANC services.Copyright © the Author(s), 2023.
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The New Coronavirus 2019 pandemic (COVID-19) is the world’s health crisis. Various aspects of the virus are still unknown. As the COVID-19 virus became more prevalent, the Government of Indonesia issued several types of policies, including in the education sector, by closing schools as an emergency measure to prevent the spread of infection. But when the start of the new school year, it makes parents who have school-age children start to worry, if it will start during this pandemic. The study aimed to find a picture of the impact of the Ministry of Education’s policy discourse on the start of a new school year for school-aged children. The study design was conducted with a descriptive analysis approach which was carried out through a literature review. The results of the study found that although children tend to have mild symptoms of COVID-19, it did not mean we should ignore those who have this disease. We still need to take steps to prevent them from becoming infected. Policies for reopening schools must be carefully considered. Among them were waiting for conditions to be safe from the impact of COVID-19 following the decisions of the COVID-19 Task Force and the Ministry of Health, as well as the local government as the person in charge of basic education.
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A healthy lifestyle is one of the determinants of the development of COVID-19. The purpose of the study was to analyze the predictors of a healthy lifestyle in the COVID-19 pandemic period. Data collected online. The sample size was 3,407 respondents. The variables analyzed included a healthy lifestyle (wear a mask when leaving the house, wash hands with soap, and implement physical distancing), age, education, and work type. In the final stage the binary logistic regression was used to determine the predictor. The results found that respondents with the age group 31-40 were 2.792 times more likely than respondents with the age group ≤20 to behave often wearing a mask when leaving the house. Respondents with a work type entrepreneurship category are 0.479 times more likely than respondents with a public servant/army/police work type category to behave often wearing a mask when leaving the house. The older the respondent, the more likely it is to behave frequently to wash hands with soap. Respondents with a work type entrepreneurship category have a lower possibility than the public servant/army/police category to behave frequently washing hands with soap. The analysis showed that none of the prospective predictors of behavioral variables often implementing physical distancing showed significant results. It was concluded that age groups and work types are predictors of two healthy lifestyles (wear a mask when leaving the house and wash hands with soap). While none of the variables tested proved to be a predictor of implementing physical distancing behavior. © 2020 Innovare Academics Sciences Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.