Pendampingan Lansia dalam Pelayanan Keperawatan Mandiri Dengan Masalah Nyeri Kronik

The decreasing of biological function in the aging process affecting a damage in organ tissue in the elderly, so they are easy to be susceptible of diseases including chronic pain. Pain management in the elderly with osteoarthritis in the community in large mount use pain relievers, and rarely use non-pharmacological therapy, even though the use of non-pharmacological pain management has a smaller risk of drug side effects. The solution needed to be done is Assistance to elderly in Independent Nursing Services with Chronic Pain Problems. The implementation method is providing health education to elderly families, mentoring chronic pain management independently, assisting in developing an integrated healthcare center program for the elderly on chronic pain management and conducting training for elderly health cadres. The results of the implementation of mentoring for elderly were carried out in four activities including health counseling for the elderly and family, assistancing in managing chronic pain independently, optimizing the elderly integrated healthcare center program on pain management and training for elderly health cadres. Assistancing for the elderly in independent nursing services as part of human resource development efforts in improving the handling of problems that occur in the elderly, one of which is chronic pain in the elderly, namely with independent nursing services that can be done at home, so that it becomes part of promotive and preventive efforts

Economic impact of SMEs in the desert of Arica-Chile: an early evaluation of the business assistance provided by Sercotec's Arica Business Center program

The article analyzes under a case study methodology the first economic impact results of the Small Business Development Center program in Arica, a program financed by the Technical Cooperation Service (SERCOTEC). The preliminary conclusion of the article suggests that the first economic impact results show that the 833 enterprises assisted by the program generate more sales opportunities, jobs and investments, creating positive income and fiscal returns, despite the enormous difficulties presented by the current pandemic facing the country and especially the region. From a public policy standpoint, the CDN's contribution to the regional economy helps create new employment opportunities in growing MSMEs. For their part, maturing companies contribute to job retention thanks to the advisory processes that help reorient their businesses, and the work with entrepreneurs contributes to the generation of new businesses that strengthen the regional economy.

Athletes’ Stress Determinants when Countering Fear of Failures at Their Training Center Program

Self-confidence is automatically influential towards athletes’ performance. This research aims to reveal the professional athletes’ determinants constituting with their individual experience at the Regional Training Center Program. 290 in-training program athletes at the Training Center, the Indonesian National Sports Committee of Central Java Province, Indonesia were involved to be the respondents. Data were collected from self-rated questionnaire with a 5-Likert scale. Data analysis used the SPSS program for revealing athletes’ stress determinants. The results showed the mean of excessive exercise training (M = 4.51, SD = .885), hedonic lifestyle (M = 3.17, SD = 1.00), aversive stimulation (M = 3.51, SD = .985), and overload competition (M = 4.25, SD = .719) were significant. Meanwhile, the factorial analysis claimed that two-fixed components gained 44.84% of the variances (first component = 31.69%; second component = 13.15%). These determinants coherently accomplish a comprehensive examination to strengthen athletes’ self-confidence in the training program.