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Penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan sikap petugas puskesmas terhadap Orang Dengan HIV-AIDS (ODHA) di Kota Bandung melalui pendekatan kuantitatif dan kualitatif dengan data primer di empat puskesmas (Salam, Kopo, Pasundan, dan Ibrahim Adji/Kiaracondong) di Kota Bandung pada bulan Oktober - Nopember 2010. Hasil penelitian didapatkan 59.6% petugas puskesmas bersikap positif terhadap ODHA. Faktor yang berhubungan dengan sikap petugas puskesmas terhadap ODHA adalah pengalaman menolong ODHA dengan nilai p=0.016 (OR: 4.827, 95%CI: 1.343-17.349). Artinya, petugas puskesmas yang pernah menolong ODHA akan memberi sikap positif terhadap ODHA sebesar 4.8 kali lebih tinggi dibandingkan petugas puskesmas yang belum pernah menolong ODHA setelah dikontrol variabel dukungan rekan kerja. Hasil penelitian kualitatif ditemukan informasi tentang sikap negatif petugas Puskesmas terhadap ODHA dan mutasi petugas Puskesmas yang mengganggu kelancaran pelayanan kesehatan HIV-AIDS di Puskesmas.

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 The study was designed to explore the relationship of the factors of health center providers attitude toward People Living with HIV-AIDS (PLWH) in HIV-AIDS Care, through quantitative and qualitative approach using primary data in four health centers (Ibrahim Adjie/Kiaracondong, Kopo, Pasundan, and Salam) in Bandung in October - November 2010. The result showed 59.6% health center providers had positive attitude toward PLWH. Only one factor was significant related to attitude of health center providers toward PLWH with p=0.16 (OR: 4.827, 95% CI: 1.343-17.349). Meaning, there was 4.8 chance for health center providers who had helped PLWH having positive attitude toward PLWH compared with those who never helped PLWH. The qualitative study found negative attitude of health centre providers toward PLWH and mutation of health centre providers was the problem in HIV-AIDS care at health centers in Bandung.

Abstrak: Purpose: Public-private partnerships may help to promote healthy diets. We assessed customers' exposure to and the acceptability of a Dutch public-private healthy diet campaign in butcher's shops and investigated the effects on the purchase of lean meat and the use of liquid cooking margarine and potential behavioral determinants.

Methods: The pretest-posttest control group design included 486 customers (242 experimental and 244 control) of butcher shops representing 64% of the original sample. Campaign exposure, acceptability, and behavioral effects were measured by a questionnaire.

Results: Seventy-one percent of the customers noticed the campaign. Scores on the acceptability were positive to very positive. Regression analysis revealed that customers in the experimental condition evaluated the campaign better (B = .415; p < .05) and felt more encouraged to buy lean meat (B = .252; p < .05) than customers in the control condition. No effects on behavior were found.

Discussion: Study design limitations included possible campaign exposure of control group participants. The study shows the feasibility and acceptability of a joint health-promoting activity through a public-private partnership, but there were no effects on behavior.

Abstrak: Purpose: To examine the application of the transtheoretical model (TTM) to fruit and vegetable consumption among economically disadvantaged African-American adolescents.

Methods: Scales for measuring decisional balance, situational self-efficacy, and processes of change for fruit and vegetable consumption were developed and pretested with 57 economically disadvantaged African-American adolescents. The scales and measures for assessing stages of change, demographic variables, and fruit and vegetable consumption were administered to a separate sample of 262 participants. t-tests for independent samples and analysis of variance were used to examine differences in TTM variables and fruit and vegetable consumption across stages of change.

Results: Two-factor solutions for decisional balance and processes of change and a three-factor solution for situational self-efficacy provided the best fit to the data. Alpha coefficients of reliability for the scales ranged from .77 (experiential change processes) to .91 (pros). Participants in action-maintenance stages evidenced higher pros, self-efficacy, and fruit and vegetable consumption and significantly lower cons than did participants in precontemplation and contemplation-preparation stages. Also, participants in action-maintenance stages used processes of change more frequently than did those in precontemplation-contemplation-preparation stages. The use of experiential and behavioral processes within these stages did not differ significantly, as posited.

Discussion: Observed differences in TTM variables and fruit and vegetable consumption by stage of change in this sample of economically disadvantaged African-American adolescents were consistent with theory and previous applications of the model to fruit and vegetable consumption in adults. With replication studies, the TTM may be appropriate for designing interventions to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among this population.

Abstrak: This study aimed to determine the predictors of contraceptive use among married female youths and their husbands using the behavioral theory of the Health Belief Model (HBM). A community-based survey was conducted in a rural area of Myanmar in 2008. A total of 444 respondents (222 couples) were interviewed separately using a pretested, structured questionnaire. Significant predictors of contraceptive use were determined by univariate and multivariate analysis. Wife's HBM perception was a highly significant predictor of contraceptive use in married youths (adjusted odds ratio = 10; 95% confidence interval = 2.7, 37.6). Wives aged 20 to 24 years and having their own income, experience of spousal communication, and shorter distance from home to health center were also significant predictors of contraceptive use. A poor agreement on HBM perception between wife and husband was noted. This study highlights the importance of HBM perceptions, wife's income, spousal communication, and geographic barriers in contraceptive use among married youths in rural Myanmar.