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BACKGROUND: A comprehensive screening at delivery revealed that roughly 14% of pregnant women who tested positive for COVID-19 did not exhibit any symptoms. The SARS-CoV-2 antigen swab test is frequently utilized as a diagnostic technique. Inadequate implementation of health protocol compliance can enhance the vulnerability of a community to the COVID-19 virus, according to previous findings. This suggests that these health protocol compliance and the vaccination program are important for preventing and controlling the spread of the virus. AIM: This study aims to determine the relationship of vaccination history and health protocol compliance with positive antigen swab results among pregnant women at the Community Health Center in Medan. METHOD(S): This is a cross-sectional and observational study that was conducted in February 2022 at the Community Health Center in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Two hundred pregnant women who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria make up the sample population. Antigen sampling for SARS-CoV-2 was performed in the Pramita laboratory. Following the collection and processing of sample and antigen swab data, IBM SPSS version was utilized to conduct statistical analysis. RESULT(S): The result showed that four of the pregnant women were infected with COVID-19, and they accounted for 2% of the sample population. The health protocol carried out by pregnant women was not significantly related to the swab results. Therefore, vaccination history had no significant association with COVID-19 symptoms, but people who received vaccines had more negative swab test results compared to those who did not, where three out of four positive samples were unvaccinated. CONCLUSION(S): Based on the results, only 2% of pregnant women were infected with COVID-19 at the Community Health Centre in Medan, because this study was carried out when COVID-19 cases had decreased. The statistical analysis results showed that the history of vaccination was not significantly related to SARS-CoV-2 antigen swab results. However, there was a clinical tendency that vaccines can reduce the number of positive cases, where three out of four positive samples were not vaccinated.Copyright © 2023 Sarma Nursani Lumbanraja, Reni Hayati, Khairani Sukatendel, Johny Marpaung, Muhammad Rusda, Edy Ardiansyah.
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Introduction: COVID-19 cases in Indonesia continue to grow, including in Padang, 48% of the largest contributors to cases in West Sumatra. The distribution cluster occurs in the economic center of Pasar Raya market Padang. Traders are very at risk of contracting COVID-19 because of the dense market activity and interaction between sellers and buyers. The first survey by the COVID-19 Task Force showed that 40% were reprimanded for not implementing health protocols. This study aims to determine the factors related to the compliance of Pasar Raya Padang traders in implementing health protocols. Methods: The type of research conducted is analytical with a quantitative approach to prove the existence of a statistical correlation between the variables studied. The total sample in this study amounted to 103 respondents. The sampling techniques used in this study are a proportional random sampling. Results: 103 respondents showed that most respondents were female 52.4%. Respondents were dominated by the elderly age group aged 45 years 39.8%, 26-45 years were 31.1% and the young group 29.1 %. Variable dependent obedience 53.4% or 55 people. Independent variables, knowledge, attitude, and environment. Respondents have high knowledge 60.2%, positive attitude 51.8% and a supportive social environment 53.4%. Bivariate analysis showed a significant relationship between knowledge, attitude, and environment with compliance with health protocols. Based on qualitative results, the inconvenience of wearing a mask is the main priority of the obstacles found. Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between knowledge, attitude, and environment with compliance with health protocols. Education about implementing health protocols and the vulnerability of traders to COVID-19 infection, as well as strict monitoring of effectiveness to improve merchant compliance with health protocols. © 2023, Sanglah General Hospital. All rights reserved.
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COVID-19 is one of the pandemic diseases that has hit the world including Sri Lanka. He has a virus that became the target of bids to stop its spread. Including the implementation of health protocols, to provide information about the spread of the virus emergency response, detection services for suspicious persons infected with the virus, and programs to contain the spread of the virus ensuring that the whole of Sri Lanka gets vaccinated. Here, the research focuses on the minimal spread of the face mask in the office e nvironment a n i dentification system that uses a deep learning model that prioritizes object recognition for the identification o f e mployees w ho w ear a f ace m ask and detects social distancing and crowd gathering, if any if there is a violation, it will inform via a voice notification. L oss o f Smell after the next component. One person can use one disposable card to check the smell of sniffing. E ach d isposable c ard has QR codes, and all QR codes are encrypted by adding data. The user scans the QR code on their ticket and then scratches off and smelled the smelling area and selected the corresponding scent on the disposable card. Employee company attendance is a proposed automated attendance system using facial recognition. Because it requires minimal human influence a nd o ffers a high level of accuracy and marking employee attendance and employee body temperature measurement, facial recognition will appear to be a practical option. This system aims to provide a high level of protection. Automated Attendance systems that detect and recognize are safe, fast, and time-consuming savings. This technique can also be used to identify an unknown person. © 2022 IEEE.
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To anticipate the spread of the Covid-19 virus in Indonesia, various efforts have been made by the central and regional governments. Tomohon City is the first area in North Sulawesi to have a regional regulation to enforce compliance with the Covid-19 prevention health protocol. This study aims to determine and analyze how the implementation of the Tomohon City Regional Regulation No. 1 of 2021 concerning Improvement of Discipline and Law Enforcement of Health Protocols in the Prevention and Control of Corona Virus Disease 2019 in terms of 3 indicators, namely Health Protocols, Supervision, and Imposition of Sanctions. The research method used is a qualitative method with data collection techniques in the form of observation, interviews, documentation and literature studies. The research location is Tomohon City, North Sulawesi with a total sample of 8 people consisting of the government and the community. The results of the study show that 1) The application of the health protocol as stipulated in Article 8 has not run optimally due to the lack of public awareness and discipline;2) Supervision as stipulated in article 13, namely regarding the monitoring, prevention and clarification of fake news, periodic evaluation and acceptance of public complaints has been running effectively;and, 3) The imposition of sanctions as stipulated in Article 23 has not been implemented effectively. This is due to the lack of firmness of the officers in the field. [ FROM AUTHOR]
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This study aimed to investigate the effects of using the mother tongue in delivering audiovisual health protocol messages on health attitudes and behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic. The measurement of the investigation into the variables of gender, age, and education level relied on the use of a 2X2X4 factorial design. Following the design, this study involved 240 volunteer participants randomly selected from 34 provincial clusters in the Indonesian territory. The data on the participants' health attitudes and behaviors were collected through an online questionnaire formulated on five (5) scales. The questionnaire was given to 240 participants as a sample group after receiving health protocol messages conveyed in their mother tongue in a video. The collected data were analyzed by using SPSS and an additional syntax design. The analysis shows that the use of the mother tongue in conveying health protocol messages simultaneously had a significant effect on changes in attitudes and behavior by attending to gender, age, and education levels as contributing factors to the study results. The significant impact on attitude was partially seen from gender and age level factors, while the considerable influence on behavior was seen from gender factors. The other important findings, such as the interaction between factors and the proposed concept of direct persuasive perlocutionary, were also discussed. © 2022, authors, e-ISSN: 2502-6747, p-ISSN: 2301-9468. All Rights Reserved.
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Introduction: Self-efficacy has been proven to be an important part of health promotion activities to improve compliance in the implementation of health protocols (COVID-19 preventive behavior). This study was aimed to analyze the correlation of anxiety toward coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), perceived social support, and self-efficacy in implementing health protocols among university staffs. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out to analyze self-efficacy of the implementation of health protocols among university staffs in a public university in Yogyakarta. A pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect data through Google form in May-June 2021. Data were analyzed using chi-square and logistic regression (p < 0.05). Results: From the 230 participants, 61.74% had low self-efficacy in implementing health protocols. COVID-19 related anxiety (p = 0.002) and perceived social support (p = 0.001) were associated with self-efficacy in implementing health protocols. The results of the binary logistic regression indicated that these two factors affected self-efficacy by 10.1%, while other influences were 89.9%. Conclusion: Respondents with low-perceived social support were 3.7 times less likely to have low self-efficacy in implementing health protocols. The results highlight the importance of social support to enhance self-efficacy in the implementation of health protocols among university staffs. © 2022 UPM Press. All rights reserved.
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Covid-19 has become a disease spread pandemic around the world and treatment and prevention is carried out in compliance with government-issued health protocols. However, it doesn’t run optimally because many people don’t comply with health protocols, especially when going to health facilities. The purpose of this study is to find out the factors that affect the application of health protocols in Klinik Pratama Serasi Kec. Medan Helvetia. This type of research is quantitative descriptive design. The population was patients who visited Klinik Pratama Serasi Kec. Medan Helvetia with a sample of 186 selected with slovin formula. Data collection using health protocol behavior questionnaires that have been tested for validity and reliability and analyzed with univariate and bivariate analysis. The result is three factors that have a meaningful relationship with the application of health protocols in Klinik Pratama Serasi Kec. Medan Helvetia namely knowledge (p = 0.022), education level (p = 0.047), and compliance (p = 0.001). It is expected that patients who visit Klinik Pratama Serasi Kec. Medan Helvetia adhere more to health protocols, not only when going to the clinic, but to other public places in order to prevent the transmission of the Covid-19 virus.
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Implementing the covid-19 health protocol in Indonesia is difficult due to governance concerns. The government of Indonesia developed real-time implementation tactics for the country's health protocol. This study aims to examine the function of government management in executing the covid-19 pandemic health protocol in the Wirosari District. This study will also explore how the local administration in Wirosari District, Grobogan Regency, assists with the covid-19 pandemic. The descriptive qualitative study approach collects district government data from government officials, the task force for dealing with the covid-19 epidemic, and the Wirosari District population. The outcomes demonstrated that the government's implementation of health guidelines in the Wirosari district was a successful strategy. This study contributes to the corpus of knowledge by highlighting the importance of government management. This study demonstrates that local government support is reflected in the policies outlined in regulations, while budgetary support for activities is not explicitly reflected in the budget for implementing activities in the district. However, the district administrator must supervise and control the implementation of the covid-19 pandemic health protocol. © 2022, Institute for Development and International Relations. All rights reserved.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything. Our new way of living has created a new era of demands and changes in each sector, including the business world. Attitudes and policies of organizations related to company operations in this pandemic are very diverse. These changes range from stopping operations to reducing working hours and capacity until normal operation resumes. This pandemic is not over yet, but we are optimistic that it will end soon. To survive in a pandemic requires unusual strategies. The Service Dominant Logic (SDL) approach has been used to create value between producers, consumers, and related elements. Health insurance for products and services is currently the main demand. The enforcement of the CHSE (Clean, Health, Safety, and Environment) certificate is an obligation between producers, consumers, and related elements to value co-creation. The CHSE certification serves as a guarantee to consumers and the general public that the products and services provided by companies meet hygiene, health, safety, and environmental sustainability protocols. © 2022 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused lifestyle changes for everyone and led to the practice of regulated health protocols for preventing the spreading or severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines the differences in health protocols and health practices among university students. The designed online survey was conducted among 292 university students in three cities in Indonesia, i.e., Yogyakarta, Semarang, and Surakarta. A forced-entry multivariate regression was conducted using all RANAS (risk, attitude, norms, ability-self-regulation) sub-factors as independent variables and health protocol obtained from PCA as the dependent variable. The results showed that the students' health protocol and health practices were practiced with varying frequency. A face mask covering the chin and nose was the most practiced health protocol, while reducing mobilization by maintaining distance was the most violated health protocol among students. We also found that four health protocol practices are highly correlated, i.e., handwashing in public spaces, physical distancing, frequency of using the mask, and avoiding crowded places. In addition, three significant psychological factors were identified, which were positively associated with the student's health protocol practice, i.e., belief about time (attitude) (OR: 0.119; CI: -0.054-0.136; p ≤ 0.05), personal norm (norm) (OR: 0.232; CI: 0.149-0.539; p ≤ 0.01), and action control (self-regulation) (OR: 0.173; CI: 0.046-0.427; p ≤ 0.05), where the personal norm is the most significant one. Finally, to minimize the COVID-19 transmission among students, especially when they back to onsite learning, it was important to create students' sense of ethical self-obligation to follow and practice standard health hygiene correctly and regularly.
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COVID-19 , COVID-19/epidemiology , Cities , Humans , Indonesia/epidemiology , Pandemics/prevention & control , SARS-CoV-2 , Students , UniversitiesABSTRACT
The actuality of last year and this year (2020-2021) related to the spread of Covid-19 pandemic, makes us reflect on the problem of the spread and management of pandemics and similar epidemiological situations in general. Where are we today globally towards this issue? Aside from being a health problem, is the pandemic actually a problem of architecture and living space? Should this critical moment be considered as a call to reflect on the architectural design and city planning? It is the duty of architects and urban planners to think and act more on the connection between health, people and buildings. Based on this idea, this paper creates a reactive protocol for the city, from an architect's point of view, that will answer questions about how architecture develops in epidemic/pandemic conditions, how architects should act and design, and how can they help the healthcare system in cases of epidemics/pandemics. The research methodology involves the combination of qualitative research, respectively, theoretical review and phenomenology, and quantitative methods (diagrams, interviews and thematic maps). The paper finds that the measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 coincide with the ones taken during many other known epidemics/pandemics in history, and that the spatial/functional organization of housing, workspaces and the city in general does not meet the needs of a healthy environment. Based on the findings, the paper concludes with the creation of a protocol for the resilient city, which will contribute or complement public health protocols focusing on epidemics/pandemics by the WHO. This protocol anticipates the response and interaction between health and architecture, in order to create a preventive and reactive platform for cities in the framework of contemporary commitment to a healthy and sustainable city.
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This study aims to propose a system that can detect crowds that have the potential to violate the Covid-19 health protocol. The criterion used is the distance between each person in the crowd. In this case, the permissible distance between each person is 1 meter. The camera is used to detect the distance. The input from the camera is connected to the laptop. The images obtained are processed using Deep Learning. In this case, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is used. If the distance between each person in the image is less than 1 meter, the color of that person's bounding box will be red, otherwise, it will be green. In this case, testing was carried out on 3 conditions with the number of people varying from 2 to 20 people. The first condition is the condition that the distance between each person is more than 1 meter. The second condition is the condition that the distance between each person is less than 1 meter and some is more than 1 meter. The third condition is the condition that the distance between each person is less than 1 meter. The proposed system achieves average specificity, sensitivity, and accuracies of 91.03, 91.7, and 91.83, respectively. © 2021 IEEE.
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At the end of 2019, the world was rocked by a disease that spread worldwide. The disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, also known as the Novel Corona Virus called COVID-19. This virus is responsible for many deaths;as of November 26, 2021, the total global death toll from COVID-19 was more than 5 million deaths. In July of that year, Indonesia became a country with the highest death rate and a high number of new cases, with a total of 143.796 fatalities. Making Indonesia face the problem of poor health situation.
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The elderly is the most vulnerable population group during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Unfortunately, the vaccination uptake against COVID-19 among the seniors was considered low. This research aimed to point out the most significant factor as the recommendation for government to develop strategy in increasing COVID-19 participation among elderly. The variables are the health belief model, trust in health authorities and media, the experience regarding COVID-19, the general vaccination behaviour, and the novel contribution is the addition of the health protocol compliance as the determining factors of COVID-19 vaccination uptake action among the elderly in Indonesia. The online survey using a structured questionnaire obtained 213 respondents aged ≥55 years old. Structured equation modelling was employed to test the model. The result showed that the health belief model (β=0.296), trust in media and authorities (β=0.524), and general vaccination behaviour (β=0.319) significantly affect health protocol compliance. The health belief model (β=0.699), trust in media authorities (β=0.933), and health protocol compliance (β=0.406) significantly affected the COVID-19 vaccination uptake behaviour. This result gives the implication that the government should focus on improving the trust in media and authorities among the elderly. This action would improve the knowledge of COVID-19 and increase the vaccination coverage among the elderly. © 2022, Intelektual Pustaka Media Utama. All rights reserved.
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is continuing, but companies have been allowed to continue their business with the obligation strictly to apply health protocol. A cross-sectional study aimed to examine the perception of COVID-19 and its prevention behavior based on the health belief model was conducted on 285 industrial workers from eight company types sampled by online survey. The results show that most workers have poor COVID-19 perceptions (54.7%). However, the workers showing good behavior (61.1%) in preventing COVID-19 transmission. Gender (p=0.009), education background (p=0.017) and company types (p=0.001) were related to the COVID-19 perception. In addition, the perceptions related to the behavior in preventing COVID-19 transmission (p=0.000). Except cues to action, all perception components, i.e., perceived susceptibility (p=0.000), seriousness (p=0.005), benefits (p=0.000), barriers (p=0.000), and self-efficacy (p=0.000) related to behavior to prevent COVID-19 transmission. However, the perception components show a weak correlation with preventing behavior (r=0.167-0.234). The information types were related to perceived barriers (p=0.046) and cues to action (p=0.007). Maintain a safe distance (p=0.029), using a face mask (p=0.039), and eat nutritious food (p=0.019) related to information types. The increase of COVID-19 perception is the key to improve industrial workers' behavior to prevent the COVID-19 transmission. © 2022, Intelektual Pustaka Media Utama. All rights reserved.
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Nowadays, the Corona Virus outbreak in 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic. The public must implement health protocols to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Trends show that the number of COVID-19 is increasing over time. This study proposes and develops a smart model to detect COVID-19 Health protocol violators in vehicles. This model can detect violations of the use of masks and social distancing in vehicles. The proposed model is a combination of the YOLO object detection method and the Hourglass architecture. The experimental results of the proposed model can detect violations with a high success rate. Here, the standard YOLOv4 detection model as baseline yields an mAP of 0.87 for validation and 0.74 for test data. On the other hand, the proposed method produces an mAP of 0.92 on the validation data, 0.78 on the test data. From these results, this smart model is quite promising to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. © 2021 ACM.
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This study investigates the understanding of students with hearing impairment regarding the implementation of the COVID-19 epidemic health protocol through demonstration experiments. This study used one group pre-test and post-test design with ten students with hearing impairment in the age range of 6-22 years in Special Needs School in Payakumbuh, Indonesia. The study examined the understanding and awareness of students with hearing impairment about implementing the CoViD-19 health protocol. The explanation is given in three stages. First, intervention support by a visual theoretical explanation of the use of masks, maintaining distance through spraying trials, Last, explaining why washing should use soap periodically by mixing chemical testing between water, coconut oil, and soap. The level of understanding of students with hearing impairment assessed through surveys with Google form contains 30 questions that explore students' understanding and 15 questions about awareness of health protocol during CoViD19. The results showed that the score increased by 35.34% on awareness and 27.53% on understanding. This method impacts improving the understanding of students with hearing impairment and meaningful learning experience in learning concepts for students with hearing impairment.
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BACKGROUND: Workplaces are prone to the current outbreak- of COVID-19. Despite the production of the COVID-19 vaccine, due to some challenges in vaccinating all people worldwide, adherence to health protocols is still one of the ways to prevent infection. OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the compliance of COVID-19 protocols in the workplaces of Ardabil, Iran. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional research conducted on the workplaces affiliated to Ardabil University of Medical Sciences between August and September, 2020. A researcher-designed checklist was completed once in early August and once at the end of September for the workplaces. Accordingly, these workplaces were inspected for any compliance with the COVID-19 prevention protocols by health centers during August and September. In addition, the number of patients with COVID-19 was determined for each one of the workplaces. RESULTS: The results showed that the highest increase was related to screening (57.8%) and the lowest change was related to personal hygiene (1.3%). The rates of increase in performance for small workshops, offices and industries were 35.4%, 33.1%and 12.4%, respectively. Moreover, a linear and inverse relationship was found between the incidence of COVID-19 and the level of observance of the OVID-19 prevention protocols. CONCLUSIONS: Based on the results of this study, the inspection made by legal authorities led to the increased commitment of workplace managers to implement prevention programs, thereby increasing the observation level of these protocols in the workplace and reducing the incidence of COVID-19.
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COVID-19 , Workplace , COVID-19 Vaccines , Cross-Sectional Studies , Humans , Iran , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to construct an SIR model for COVID-19 with fuzzy parameters. The SIR model is constructed by considering the factors of vaccination, treatment, obedience in implementing health protocols, and the corona virus-load. Parameters of the infection rate, recovery rate, and death rate due to COVID-19 are constructed as a fuzzy number, and their membership functions are used in the model as fuzzy parameters. The model analysis uses the generation matrix method to obtain the basic reproduction number and the stability of the model's equilibrium points. Simulation results show that differences in corona virus-loads will also cause differences in the transmission of COVID-19. Likewise, the factors of vaccination and obedience in implementing health protocols have the same effect in slowing or stopping the transmission of COVID-19 in Indonesia.