Smartphone usage and dietary habits associated with sugar-sweetened beverages preferences among Indonesian female university students.

High sugary beverages have recently gained popularity among young adults. This research aimed to determine the association between smartphone usage and dietary consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages among young female adults in Indonesia. This cross-sectional study conducted an online survey in Malang City. There were 217 female university students aged 18-25 years old who were eligible as participants. The dependent variable was a preference for SSBs consumption, while the independent variables included sociodemographics, BMI, food allergies, smartphone usage, and dietary habits. Chi-square and binary logistics were used to analyse the association between independent variables and SSBs. The results showed that 62.2% of respondents preferred to consume SSBs, and 12.9% of participants were classified as overnutrition (BMi>25). More than half of the respondents had breakfast every day, and a majority of them like to consume high carbohydrates (96.8%) and high-sugar snacks (55.3%). The binary logistic regression showed an association between BMI status, breakfast consumption, watching movies, and eating frequency with high sugar beverage consumption preference (p<0.05). Reducing sugar beverages consumption intervention should consider using media accessible with smartphone.

Personal characteristics, families, and community support associated with self-care behavior among Indonesian diabetic patients.

Self-care management is the way to prevent the complication in diabetes. However, adherence to self-care management is low. This study aims to assess the association of personal characteristics, supports the system, including families and community, with the self-care behavior among diabetes patients. A cross-sectional study was used in this research. 158 participants were randomly selected based on the primary health care database in Malang City, Indonesia. There are eight parts of the questionnaire as the instruments in this study. Multivariate logistic regression was used to analyze the association of all independent variables with self-care behavior as a dependent variable. This study showed that 60.80% of respondents had complications while the less practicing self-care behavior was 46.84%. Furthermore, the ordinal regression logistic showed that duration of DM (OR:4.347, 95%CI 1.671-11.310), illness perception (OR: 0.028, 95%CI 6.090-51.346), family supports (OR: 3.295, 95%CI 1.325-8.192), and community supports (2.802, 95%CI 1.209-6.493) were associated with self-care behavior among diabetes Mellitus. This finding can support the primary health care to involved family and community around diabetes patients to success the self-care management.

The relationship between husband support and husband's education level with fertility of women of childbearing age in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia.

Fertility is a contributor to the number of figures in the increase in population. The husband has a big role in the fertility process of his wife. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the incidence of women of childbearing age fertility with husband support and the level of husband education in NTT Province. The design used in this study was cross-sectional. The data used is secondary data, which is sourced from the documentation of 2017 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS). The population of this study was all women of childbearing age in NTT Province in 2017, namely 2,223 women, and the sample used in this study was 323 women. Data analysis was carried out univariate and bivariate, using the Chi- Square Test. The results of the bivariate analysis were that there was no significant relationship between husband support and women of childbearing age fertility (pvalue= 0.219), and there was a significant relationship between the husband's education level and women of childbearing age fertility (p-value=0.006).