Author: Panduan Skripsi

The existence of livestock as a dominant risk factor of pneumonia among Indonesian children aged 12-59 months

The study aimed to determine the risk factors of pneumonia among children under-5 years old. A case control study was carried out among the mothers having under five years children who were admitted and recorded in medical record in IMCI Clinic, Kebon Jeruk Sub District, West Jakarta in 2018. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 60 children with pneumonia and 120 children with non-pneumonia diseases. The results shows the existence of livestock is a dominant risk factor of pneumonia in children under-five. An increasing trend of pneumonia was observed among children aged 12-59 months, who live near the highway, non-exclusive breastfeeding, expose to indoor smoking parents, and low family income.

Antifertility Effect of the Ethanol Extract of Centella asiatica L. Urban Against the White Rat (Rattus norvegicus L.) in the Early Post-Implantation

Centella asiatica is commonly known as centella or pegagan is one of the biological
resources that have many benefits for mankind. Clinical and pharmacological study of Centella
asiatica has been widely proven by scientists of the world, but there are a few properties that
require further investigation in particular its effect on fertility. This research aims to know the
influence of the ethanol extract of pegagan (Centella asiatica) towards the birth rates or
fertility in the early post-implantation. On the research, white rat (Rattus norvegicus L.) is used
as animal tested. The method that used in this research was an experiment by using randomly
complete design. The tested animals were grouped into 4 treatment i.e. group I (control group),
group II (dose 175 mg/kg body weight), group III (a dose of 200 mg/kg body weight) and
Group IV (dose 225 mg/kg body weight). The tested animals were given the exraction of
Centella asiatica leaf orally with different doses for 15 days after post-implantation. The value
of post-implantation death percentage is calculated by counting the number of implantation,
either containing a live fetus, or dead fetus and embryo resorb. The results showed that
Centella asiatica gave the influ-ence on white white rat ferlitisation. On the grup IV treatment
with the dose of 225 mg/kg body weight showed the highest KPI val-ue i.e. 57.23%.