Jurnal Sains dan Kesehatan
Vol. 3 No. 5 (2021): Jurnal Sains dan Kesehatan

#JALANKITA: Pemantauan Penyakit Komorbid Penyulit Covid-19 Berbasis Android pada Lansia di Masa Pandemi di Kota Balikpapan: #JALANKITA: Monitoring of Covid-19 Comorbidities on Android Base for the Elderly in the Pandemic Period in the Balikpapan City

Joshua Gaza Dirgantara Tandirogang (Program Studi Kedokteran, Fakultas Kedokteran, Universitas Mulawarman)
Swandari Paramita (Laboratorium Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat, Fakultas Kedokteran, Universitas Mulawarman)
Yadi Yadi (Laboratorium Mikrobiologi, Fakultas Kedokteran, Universitas Mulawarman)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Oct 2021

Abstract

Elderly or commonly referred to as seniors is the age category that has the highest mortality rate due to Covid-19 infection, this is due to not only because of the age factor but also due to comorbid diseases that many elderly suffer from. At present, the use of smartphones has reached the elderly category and has been widely used for daily needs. Seeing this phenomenon, this study has the aim of using an Android-based application in observing and monitoring to see the comorbidities of Covid-19 in the elderly. This study used 112 samples in the city of Balikpapan and aged over 50 years old which was conducted for 3 days in August 2020. This research is a descriptive study and the sampling is purposive sampling. The results in this study showed that the most respondents were 50-59 years of age, the most sexes were women and the most comorbid diseases suffered were high blood pressure or hypertension

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Journal Info

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jsk

Publisher

Subject

Agriculture, Biological Sciences & Forestry Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology Health Professions Immunology & microbiology Medicine & Pharmacology

Description

Jurnal Sains dan Kesehatan (J. Sains. Kes) (e-ISSN 2407-6082, p-ISSN 2303-0267), is a national journal with ISSN and published four times a year in 2015. In 2016 the publishing frequency changed to twice a year. In 2021 the frequency increased to six times a year. Jurnal Sains dan Kesehatan is ...