Penyuluhan Kesehatan Menggunakan Survivor Dengan Non Survivor Untuk Meningkatkan Perilaku Tentang Pemeriksaan Payudara Sendiri Pada Wanita Usia Subur Di Yogyakarta

BACKGROUND: Cancer disease is one of the main causes of the death in the worldwide. However,the appropriate ways in improving breast self-examination behavior (SADARI) in productive fertile woman is not discovered yet.OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study were to obtain the information about the use of survivors and nonsurvivor of breast cancer in improving the behavior of productive fertile woman. In addition, measuring how farthe impact of the characteristic of the respondents' behavior.METHODS The type of this study was Quasi Experimental, pretest posttest control group design, using female respondents in fertile aged, aged 20-30 years from 78 respondents, which wasrandomly selected. Independent variable in research was health counseling using survivor asresource with non survivor of breast cancer. The dependent variable in this study was knowledge, attitude, and skill. The instruments used to measure knowledge and attitudes were questionnaires, whilethe skills were measured by using the BSE, Breast Self-Examination, (SADARI) checklist sheet. The data obtained were analyzed by using Independent sample T Test and Mancova test with significant level of α: 0,05.RESULTS The results showed that there was a significant difference in the knowledge and skill of the productive women between counseling conducted by survivors with nonsurvivor (ρ-value 0.0001), while there was no significant improvement for the attitude (ρ-value 0.056). There was no characteristic influence on skill improvement, except work and experience factor (ρ-value 0.013 and ρ-value 0.039).CONCLUSION : Increasing the knowledge, attitudes and skills significantly differed between the use of survivor and nonsurvivor sources (p-value 0.0001) by controlling work and experience factors.Keywords: Survivor, nonsurvivor, breast cancer, counseling, Breast Self-Examination

Lack of evidence for increased perceptions of fertility on the "red planet"

Throughout recorded history, fertility has been connected to both agriculture and human sexual reproduction. The two meanings often share representations or symbols across cultures, e.g. through depictions of Earth as a fertile woman or "mother". It is known that, to increase their reproductive success, human females signal their fertility to conspecifics with the color red. Given the strong link between human fertility to agricultural fertility, it stands to reason that humans should similarly perceive the soil on Mars — often referred to as "the red planet" — to be more fertile. We report here the results of an ambitious experiment that provides a compelling null effect in favor of this hypothesis. We discuss this observation and provide guidance for future planetary priming research.

Successful Outcome of Pregnancy of a Sub-fertile Woman with Multiple Fibroids and Placenta Praevia and Accreta

Fibroids, the commonest benign pelvic tumor, have a common association with subfertility and increasing maternal age. Placenta praevia and fibroid (if submucous) has an association with placenta accreta. Here we report the case of an elderly primigravida with history of prolong subfertility, admitted with 37 weeks pregnancy with multiple fibroids and central placenta praevia with focal increta. Even with all these complicating factors, with the advent of better uterotonic drugs, conservative management could be considered successfully now-a-days. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jbcps.v32i1.21038 J Bangladesh Coll Phys Surg 2014; 32: 41-44

Determination of ovulation in women using saliva ferning test

Every human being experiences growth and development, starting from childhood to adulthood. Women who have entered puberty will experience monthly menstrual cycle. One phase of the menstrual cycle is ovulation or the fertile phase of a woman. The fertile period is the period in which there is an egg ready to be fertilized by sperm. At the time of fertility, there is an increase in the amount of estrogen and progesterone hormones. Increase in these hormones is also found in saliva. Saliva as a biological fluid in the body can be used as a diagnostic fluid. Woman’s fertile period can be assessed from the saliva. Saliva containing high estrogen hormones can form a ferning picture on saliva dried on object glass. The type of research is the study of literature. A literature study was conducted to discuss the determining of the fertile woman with saliva ferning test. The results of previous studies showed the existence of differences in saliva pictures at the time of the fertile period and the infertile period. Salivary ferning was very clearly seen in the woman’s fertile period.

Depression, Anxiety, Happiness and Satisfaction with life among Fertile and Infertile Women

The present research was done for investigating the rate of depression, anxiety, happiness and satisfaction with life of infertile women and comparing with fertile women. The subjects of the study were all infertile women, who came to infertility section of Motazedi hospital in Kermanshah. Using the convenience sampling and with the participants’ consent, it was asked from them to answer 4 inventories. Also using the convenience sampling, it was asked from 80 fertile women to answer the inventories. The results showed that: differences between infertile and fertile woman in depression and anxiety variables was significant; but in happiness and satisfaction variables was not significant. Also, 66/2 percent of infertile women and 46/2 percent of fertile women suffered a degree of depression. The results also showed that 77/3 percent of infertile women and 67/5 percent of fertile women suffered a degree of anxiety.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijls.v8i4.10892

Fat Feminism: Reading Shelley Jackson's ‘Fat’ through Elizabeth Wilson's Gut Feminism

In this article, I treat a literary text as a form of somatechnics making an intervention in fat embodiment. I read contemporary American author Shelley Jackson's short story ‘Fat’ from The Melancholy of Anatomy through what Elizabeth Wilson terms ‘gut feminism’, a feminism accounting for the dynamism of the biological body and acknowledging ‘organic thought’ as an alternative to the mind/body split. Wilson's ‘gut feminism’ is related to theories drawing on Deleuze's concept the ‘Body without Organs’ such as hypertheorist N. Katherine Hayles’ argument for the ‘Text as Assemblage’. I show how the seemingly surreal narrative of ‘Fat’ provides crucial insights about fat, understood as an assemblage of images, affects and matter and as a liminal substance questioning the integrity of the subject. Fat is associated with the feminine in a reclamation of the early modern rhetorical term ‘dilation’, which figures the swelling text as a fat, fertile woman with voracious orifices. I describe how Jackson's ‘aesthetics of fat’ works through dilation, disgust and ‘bad taste’ to draw the reader into an experience of fat embodiment. I characterise fat as a ‘sticky sign’ in Sara Ahmed's sense, one that will not stay confined to the page but sticks to the reader and elicit gut reactions. In conclusion, I argue for a non-derogatory model of reading as incorporation