Publications by authors named "A M Saifullah"
Background: As the population ages, the prevalence of dementia in Indonesia is rapidly increasing. In Indonesia, dementia care is primarily provided by informal or family caregivers. However, there is limited information about these caregivers' understanding of dementia and the factors that may influence their knowledge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: Academic writing is essential to achieve success for doctoral students and is often linked to their academic identity, which could provoke negative emotions leading to the risk of burnout and dropping out of their studies. Although academic writing is a substantial part of doctoral students' learning journey, there are no existing recommendations to guide the provision of effective support addressing nursing and midwifery doctoral students' needs in academic writing. This review aims to identify the key considerations that could facilitate education facilities and educators to provide effective support for academic writing among nursing and midwifery doctoral students, fostering a supportive environment for guidance and development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStartle modulation paradigms, namely habituation and prepulse inhibition (PPI), can offer insight into the brain's early information processing mechanisms that might be impacted by regular meditation practice. Habituation refers to decreasing response to a repeatedly-presented startle stimulus, reflecting its redundancy. PPI refers to response reduction when a startling stimulus "pulse" is preceded by a weaker sensory stimulus "prepulse" and provides an operational measure of sensorimotor gating.
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- Microplastics (MPs) are a significant environmental concern in marine ecosystems, with research conducted in Cox's Bazar and Kuakata, Bangladesh, revealing their presence in surface water, beach sediments, and fish.
- The study employed various identification techniques and quantified MPs, finding higher abundance in beach sediments and certain fish species, indicating a correlation between MP presence and the fish's size and weight.
- Most MPs were small and fiber-shaped, primarily made of polyethylene and polypropylene, with evidence of degradation through environmental exposure, underscoring the need for improved management and mitigation strategies for plastic pollution.
This study examined the time to sputum smear and culture conversion and determinants of conversion, as well as variables associated with treatment outcomes among drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (DR-PTB) cases. The electronic database and written medical records of patients were utilized to assess the sociodemographic, clinical, microbiological, and treatment characteristics and outcomes of study participants. Among 736 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), the mean age was 36.
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