Publications by authors named "Zulfikar Ihyauddin"
The COVID-19 pandemic is predicted to affect adolescent smoking behaviours. We aim to map profiles of adolescents' smoking behaviours in a rural district in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic and validate their smoking exposures using cotinine tests. This study applied an online survey followed by cotinine tests for high-school students in Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although Indonesia has a considerable proportion of adolescent smokers, nationally representative studies of its determinants remain limited. The 2015 Indonesian Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS) was conducted with school-age adolescents and provided information about smoking behavior. This study aimed to examine the prevalence, determinants, and correlates of tobacco use among adolescents in Indonesia using the GSHS survey.
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- A systematic review was conducted on verbal autopsy studies to determine deaths from cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries, identifying 42 studies for the analysis.
- Overall, 22.9% of deaths in people aged 15 and older were due to cardiovascular disease, with higher rates in males (24.7%) compared to females (20.9%), and the highest mortality was in the Western Pacific Region (26.3%).
- The study highlights the importance of increasing verbal autopsy coverage to improve data on cardiovascular disease mortality and aid in achieving health objectives globally.
Improving knowledge, attitude, and practices of complementary feeding using practical intervention training for parents living in central Lombok, Indonesia: A community-based study.
WHO South East Asia J Public Health
November 2022
Background: Stunting remains a major public health concern in Indonesia despite many interventions. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of interventions in the form of education and demonstration on preparing complementary feeding (CF) to increase knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) of CF among parents living in villages with high stunting prevalence in Central Lombok, Indonesia.
Materials And Methods: This is a quasi-experimental community-based study, conducted from June to August 2019.
Background: Indonesia is in the middle of a rapid epidemiological transition with an ageing population and increasing exposure to risk factors for chronic conditions. This study examines the relative impacts of obesity, tobacco consumption, and physical inactivity, on non-communicable diseases multimorbidity, health service use, catastrophic health expenditure (CHE), and loss in employment productivity in Indonesia.
Methods: Secondary analyses were conducted of cross-sectional data from adults aged ≥ 40 years (n = 12,081) in the Indonesian Family Life Survey 2014/2015.
Objective: To describe the prevalence and determinants of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) among healthy children aged between 0 and 18 years living in South-East Asia (SEA).
Design: We systematically searched Ovid MEDLINE and Ovid EMBASE for observational studies assessing VDD among healthy children in the SEA region as the primary or secondary outcome from database inception to 6 April 2021. PubMed was used for e-pubs and publications not indexed in Medline.