Intansari Nurjannah

• BSN, MNSc, PhD
• Head of Department at Universitas Gadjah Mada

Background: Diabetes is often associated with complications in the lower extremities, including diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). One of the risks associated with DFU is amputation. Previous studies have found a high risk of amputation in DFU cases. Prior research also indicates that fear affects the effectiveness of therapy and the quality of life of DFU...

The management of dyspnea has received little attention as compared to other potentially severe symptoms of the disease, such as acute and chronic pain. The previous case reports indicated that Sujok therapy can alleviate dyspnea in a short time. This study aimed to determine whether Sujok therapy could reduce dyspnea symptoms in patients with oxyg...

BACKGROUND: Chalazion is a health problem of the eyelids and is usually caused mainly by a blockage in the ducts of the sebaceous glands. METHODS: Therapeutic protocol instructions were made by the researcher in the form of pictures sent to the patient. Patients also reported their progress to the researcher. There were two cases of chalazion: one...

This study aims to determine the result of the Sujok and Triorigin Therapy (STT) for reducing symptoms experienced by COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 patients through community empowerment. This study used a pre-experimental design without a control group. STT was provided by volunteers who had been specially trained. STT utilizes a specific therapeutic...

Vaginitis cases are the most frequently encountered cases of gynaecologists in women who seek treatment at health facilities. Various therapies are sought by sufferers to overcome this condition. This case report discusses the use of Sujok triorigin therapy with the mudra method to treat the symptoms of vaginitis. Mudra method is the therapy only b...

Heel Pain adalah rasa nyeri pada bagian bawah, belakang, atau dalam dari tumit akibat adanya gangguan muskuloskeletal atau kondisi khusus. Salah satu terapi alternatif komplementer yang bisa digunakan untuk mengurangi skala nyeri pasien dengan heel pain adalah dengan menggunakan terapi Sujok. Pemberian terapi Sujok merupakan bagian dari kegiatan in...

Background: Interviewing is a vital and common method of collecting data in qualitative research. The interview is usually recorded and a written transcription is created from the recording. The transcription document is then analysed by reading and re-reading to fracture the data and develop initial codes, as in grounded theory methodology. Howev...

One of measurements on nurses’ basic skills regarding patient’s sexual behavior problem is through nurse’s knowledge domain using a structured-questionnaire with structural equation modeling, hypothesis that has been developed in previous studies in Chinese version. Meanwhile, the Indonesia version has not yet beeb developed, especially in the scop...

Su Jok Therapy for COVID-19

Background: Coping is an important mediator for teenagers in response to stressors, and video games are widely used by teenagers to reduce the perceived stressors. Senior high school students are the group that commonly play and have a high risk of being addicted to video games.Objective: To determine differences in the risk of video games addictio...

Background: Living with cancer causes stress for both patients and caregivers. Empowering family caregivers is critical in palliative care. It is well known that a lack of proper knowledge and training of informal caregivers is a barrier to palliative care provision at home. Objectives: This scoping review aimed to explore palliative care education...

Background and purpose Foot reflexology is safe and suitable for preschoolers. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of foot reflexology on behavioral and emotional problems in preschool children. Method As many as 31 preschool children in Nurul Islam Kindergarden involved in pre-experimental study with one group pre-test and post-...

Patients with COVID-19 not only experience suffering from physiological symptoms but also psychological dimensions such as fear. Fear is part of life and the threat of self-existence will increase the fear level. Increased levels of fear will influence the process of healing by disturbing the immunity function. This case series reports the results...

Background: The total number of adolescents in the world who have anxiety reaches 31,9%, or as many as 1 in 3 teenagers, when they are 18 years old. In addition to anxiety, problems in the form of messing up/making trouble are also often encountered in school-age children, this is due to their limited ability to provide an assessment of the situati...

Background: Dementia has become a global concern in ageing societies nowadays. Nurses have major roles in caring for dementia patients in various settings. There have been many trainings on dementia conducted for nurses and other health staff. However, reviews of the effect of the trainings on nurses are still scarce. This paper aims to review the...

Purpose This study aimed to evaluate pain levels before and after Su Jok therapy. Methods This research was a retrospective study conducted in September – December 2019 in Indonesia. A total of 33 females and 13 males complaining of physical pain when visiting community services’ activities and treated by a certified Su Jok therapist were included...

The Covid-19 pandemic has led people who were non-COVID-19 patient to avoid hospital admission and to seek help from alternative medicine. The aim of this report is to describe the management of chest pain at home using Su Jok therapy. Case report: A male 47 of years old complained of chest pain with difficulty breathing and asked for help from the...

Purpose This paper aims to explicate one of the major findings of a research study seeking to understand how Indonesian people with diabetes learn about their disease. The one key finding discussed in this paper is how families influence the learning and self-management processes adopted by Indonesian people with diabetes. Design/methodology/appro...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in people avoiding hospital admission for non-COVID patients and forcing people to seek help via telehealth or alternative medicine.Case study: A 30-year-old man from Solo, Indonesia, complained of left chest discomfort with an irregular heartbeat. This man sent an inquiry and his left eye sclera profi...

Dealing with a large amount of qualitative data during the analytical process can be challenging especially when the data needs to be regularly discussed with other research team members. For researchers employing grounded theory methodology and methods, using visual tools such as concept maps or diagrams can be a beneficial approach at all phases...

Hip fractures often occur in elderly people and are a major global health challenge causing many consequences, both in health and socioeconomic costs. This review aimed to identify complications that occur in patients with postoperative hip fracture between 30 days and 60 months after discharge. This review was conducted on articles published from...

Background: One of the concerns associated with patient safety is prevention of falls. Patients with mental disorders have a higher risk of falling compared to other patient age, diagnosis of depression, use of antipsychotics medication, and medical therapy management of Electro Convulsive Therapy.Objective: This study was aimed to explore the desc...

Background Sexuality is human rights, a fundamental part of healthy life which is defined as the absence of illness, social, emotional, mental and physical welfare in relation to the sexuality and has become the consideration of health service aspect. Sexual health is one of the parts of the patient's holistic needs in which the nurse has the respo...

Background: The postpartum period was a physical and psychological adaptation process. Psychological disturbances could present in form of postpartum blues, postpartum depression, and postpartum psychosis. Objective: The objective of this research was to determine the incidence of postpartum depression, identify predictors of postpartum depression...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the practical use of theoretical sampling as a method for selecting data that provide a richer and deeper understanding of the phenomenon being investigated. Design/methodology/approach Theoretical sampling is a well-known method in grounded theory studies to seek additional data based on concepts de...

Background: The existing standard of nursing language consists of NANDA-I for diagnostic language standard, Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC) for nursing intervention, and Nursing Outcome Classification (NOC) for nursing outcomes. One way to improve the quality of nursing care documentation is to provide training in the documentation system...

Background: A storyline in a grounded theory study plays two important roles: an analytical tool and a research product. Using more than one language in a study affects the research, including the dissemination of its findings. Very little literature discusses how to develop and disseminate a storyline. Aim: This paper offers insight into the cr...

Background: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is one of summative test method for performance-based assessment. One of component that make up an OSCE is assessment instrumen. Whereas checklist is one of OSCE’s component that affect OSCE’s reliability. As long as this checklist was implemented in Nursing Science Program, Faculty of Me...

Background: The common problems suffered by children with intellectual disability are difficulty to perform of daily activities or self-care including eating activity. NOC Self-care: eating is a measurement of client's status regarding eating skill after provides nursing intervention. NOC was translated into Indonesian and its indicators were opera...

Background: Evaluation of nursing outcome based Nursing Outcome Classification (NOC) is very important. However, there is dearth of information regarding its validation in Indonesian language. Objective: To validate four nursing outcomes’ indicators of the Nursing Outcome Classification (NOC) for stroke patients with self-care deficit problems. Met...

Abstrak Latar Belakang: Edukasi diabetes bermanfaat pada perbaikan dalam pengelolaan diabetes secara mandiri serta peningkatan pengendalian kadar gula darahnya. Tetapi, sampai dengan saat ini belum terdapat penelitian dan publikasi mengenai proses bagaimana penderita diabetes di Indonesia mempelajari tentang penyakitnya. Tujuan: Adapun tujuan dar...

Background: Nursing intervention is part of nursing process. The accurateness of intervention needs to be explored through an effort to measure validity and reliability of the intervention.Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of four Nursing Intervention Classifications (NICs) of Self-Care Assistance (SCA) on pat...

Background Diabetes education has been found to impact positively on self-management by people with diabetes although little is known about the process by which they assimilate information. The aim of this study was to generate a theory explaining the process by which people with diabetes learn about their disease in Indonesia. Methods This study...

Background: Perceptions of health professionals contribute to the process of service provision to recover patients with schizophrenia. Thus, different perceptions of mental health professionals toward recovery of patients with schizophrenia can affect decision making in providing services. Aim: This study aimed to describe the perceptions of health...

ABSTRAK Pendahuluan: Thalassemia merupakan penyakit anemia hemolitik yang diturunkan secara genetik. Indonesia termasuk salah satu Negara yang memiliki penduduk pembawa gena thalassemia dengan prevalensi sebesar 3-8%. Anak thalassemia beta mayor harus menjalani pengobatan dalam jangka waktu yang panjang sehingga memberikan dampak bagi anak dan kel...

Background: Fatigue as nursing diagnosis is a common phenomenon in patient undertaking hemodialysis. There is, however, no clear instrument to measure the clinical indicators of this nursing diagnosis.Objectives: To measure the validity and reliability an instrument to measure clinical indicator in nursing diagnosis fatigue.Methods: Content Validit...

Background: Comfort is one of nurses’ concerns in each of nursing care activity. There are several different instruments to measure patient’s comfort. Tools regarding comfort however, have not been developed and tested in Indonesian.Objectives: This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of the Shortened General Comfort Questionnaire (S...

Background: Research in pain especially in patients undertaking hemodialysis is important to be conducted in order to help the process of their hemodialysis therapy. Aim: The aim this study was to describe pain characteristic on hemodialysis patient using Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and mnemonic PQRST (Provocation, Quality, Regio, Radiation and Tim...

PurposeThis study aimed to determine the experience and social support needs of becoming a mother in adolescence.Methods This study was a qualitative research with a descriptive phenomenology approach. Data collection was performed by in-depth interview method and using a semi-structured study guide. Research was conducted at health centers of Jeti...

Objective: This aim of this research is to describe clinical indicators of feeding self-care deficit based on Barthel Index measurement in patients with stroke.Methods: The research used a quantitative description study with cross-sectional design. This research was conducted in one hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on March – April 2017 with total...

Background: End Stage Renal Disease is a condition of chronic kidney disease characterized by decreased renal function that requires hemodialysis therapy. Hemodialysis causes several effects, one of which is insomnia.Objective: To identify clinical indicator of nursing diagnosis for insomnia using Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) as the measuring inst...

Background: Bullying is a form of repetitive persecution both on physical and emotional aggressions and potentially causing mental and physical disorders on perpetrators and victims. There are various factors that may affect a child to behave as bullies. These are important factors to be identified as one of prevention effort to stop bullying behav...

Background: There is not enough information related to the accuracy of nursing and collaborative diagnoses established by nurses in psychiatric setting in Indonesia.Objective: The objective of this study was to identify the correspondence between nursing and collaborative diagnoses established and predicted by nurses.Methods: This was a descriptive...

Background: Adolescents who are in transition period have high risk behavior of juvenile delinquency. Communication between parents and adolescents effectively and openly could help adolescents to avoid delinquency behavior.Objective: This study aims to examine the relationship between family communication patterns and juvenile delinquency in Junio...

Background: Student academic achievement is influenced by learning instruments such as: of teaching staff, facility and infrastructure as well as the curricular component. Teacher-Centered Learning (TCL) or Student-Centered Learning (SCL) will also contributes to student’s outcomes as an approach to apply a curricular component.Aim: To compare stud...

Background: Reliable instrument is needed by nurses to measure patient’s status. This study aimed to determine the interrater reliability of client categorization system instrument used in psychiatric setting.Methods: Data was collected two periods in a year by twelve raters. They used the CCS to simultaneously gauge the condition of 30 patients fo...

The quality of parent-children relationship and resilience among parents with children with intellectual disabilityPurposehis study was conducted to know the relation between quality of parent-child relationship and resilience among parents of children with intellectual disability.Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted from June - July 20...

Indicators in nursing outcome classification (NOC) need to be tested for their validity and reliability. One method to measure reliability of NOC is by using interrater reliability. Kappa and percent agreement are common statistic analytical methods to be used together in measuring interrater reliability of an instrument. The reason for using these...

Background: There is not enough information related to the accuracy of nursing and collaborative diagnoses established by nurses in psychiatric setting in Indonesia. Objective: The objective of this study was to identify the correspondence between nursing and collaborative diagnoses established and predicted by nurses. Methods: This was a descripti...

Background: The wound care skills checklist in objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) should be valid and reliable. Thus, the reliability test of the wound care skills checklist is needed. Purpose of the study was to identify the reliability of the wound care skills checklist.Methods: This study is a descriptive non-experimental quantitat...

Purpose: The article investigates the interrater reliability of Nursing Outcome Classification (NOC) "Caregiver Performance: Direct Care" in Indonesian language. Methods: Two raters assessed 31 caregivers of clients with mental disorders using NOC "Caregiver Performance: Direct Care" in January 2016. This NOC was translated into Indonesian and e...

Background: Hemodialysis is a routine medical intervention for patient with chronic renal failure. Patients may responds differently when they undergoing this procedure. Investigating nursing diagnosis and collaborative diagnoses during hemodialysis procedure need to be explored. The objective of this research is to determine the sequence of nursin...

Abstract. Background. Rapid technological advances have affected health sector, one of which is the presence of digitizing system in terms of health care documentation, which is known as the Electronic Health Record (EHR). In addition, there are various software or applications which are developed to facilitate users to perform their duties in heal...

Background: Perioperative is a term that involving three different phases of surgery which are pre-operative phase, intraoperative phase and post-operative phase. Each phase is started and ended in the specific time with the sequence of events that shape patient experience related to surgery.This research is aimed at identifying the different types...

Background The mentally ill are vulnerable to human rights violations, particularly in Indonesia, where shackling is widespread.AimThe aim of this study was to understand the provision of mental health care in Indonesia, thereby identifying ways to improve care and better support carers.Methods Grounded theory methods were used. Study participants...

Translation can be a problem area for researchers conducting qualitative studies in languages other than English who intend to publish the results in an English language journal. Analyzing the data is also complex when the research team consists of people from different language backgrounds. Translation must be considered as an issue in its own rig...

Mental health services are not a priority in the Indonesian health system. Insufficient resources are allocated, resulting in shortfalls in key performance indicators for mental health services. Overall, facilities and human resources are inadequate which means that mental health services do not function at their best. The impact of these inadequac...

Translation can be a problem area for researchers conducting qualitative studies in languages other than English who intend to publish the results in an English-language journal. Analyzing the data is also complex when the research team consists of people from different language backgrounds. Translation must be considered as an issue in its own rig...

Abstract Background. Several methods of diagnostic reasoning have been explained in the literature, but there has been no research to date comparing one method of diagnostic reasoning to another. Aims. This study aimed to identify differences between the 4 steps method and the 6 steps method of diagnostic reasoning in terms of what the possible d...

To identify the evidence base related to discharge planning in the context of acute and community mental healthcare service provision to ascertain the need for future research. Discharge planning is an important activity when preparing consumers to transition from hospital to home. The efficiency of discharge planning for consumers living with a me...

Background: Identification of possible diagnostics is an important step to confirm or rule out nursing diagnoses or collaborative problems in the diagnostic reasoning process. Understanding what cues (signs and symptoms) belong to which nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems, is a key to identifying possible nursing diagnoses and collaborativ...

Background: Identification of possible diagnostics is an important step to confirm or rule out nursing diagnoses or collaborative problems in the diagnostic reasoning process. Understanding what cues (signs and symptoms) belong to which nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems, is a key to identifying possible nursing diagnoses and collaborativ...

Absconding from psychiatric institutions is a relatively common phenomenon. Yet patients' experience of absconding is a perspective that has received little attention in the West and none in Indonesia. A case study using mixed methods was undertaken in order to provide a profile of absconding events over a 1-year period in a psychiatric setting in...

Patients absconding from psychiatric settings are a phenomenon that has increasingly caught the attention of nursing researchers in Western countries. This phenomenon also occurs in psychiatric hospitals in Indonesia. However, this is not a topic that has received a great deal of attention in terms of research in Indonesia. The aim of the study i...