Aim: To assess the prevalence of dental caries among autism spectrum disorders (ASD) children in Surabaya, Indonesia, and to explore the association between oral health-related behaviors comprising toothbrushing, snacking and dental visiting and the severity of caries. Methods: The prevalence and severity of caries were assessed using DMF-T/dmf-t and PUFA/pufa indexes for mixed dentitions. The parents or carers’ responses were collected to identify the oral health-related behaviors that were associated with caries severity. Results: This study shows that almost 79% of ASD children in Surabaya were experiencing caries and 47.1% had untreated caries with pulp involvement or more severe conditions. Oral health behaviour factors associated with the severity of dental caries experienced by children with autism were brushing frequency (B [95% CI] =2.46 [0.09–4.83] and 2.03 [0.78–3.28]), brushing time (B [95% CI] =3.76 [1.32–6.20] and 2.03 [0.74–3.32]) and cleansing after snack (B [95% CI] = 2.04 [0.20–3.89] and 1.21 [0.23–2.18]) in DMF-T/dmf-t and PUFA/pufa indexes, respectively. Conclusions: The prevalence of caries among children with autism in Surabaya was high. The severity was associated with brushing and snacking behaviors. Caries in children with autism should be paid attention, and research in modifying daily activities are needed to allow them to adopt more healthy oral health-related behaviors.

Research shows that final year students experience stress when they work on their thesis. This situation has affected their psychological well-being. According to Ryff psychological well-being is a condition of someone who is free from pressure and problems. Thus, this study aims to determine the relationship between social support and psychological well-being of final year students who are working on a thesis. This research was conducted at Airlangga University. This study uses a quantitative approach. This research was conducted on 156 students that are working on their thesis at Airlangga University. Data obtained using a survey method that uses a measure of social support scale developed by Zimet and psychological well-being scale developed by Palupi in the journal Studia Universitatis Maladaviae. The data analysis technique used in this study is Pearson Product Moment. The results of the analysis show a correlation of 0.760 which means there is a relationship between social support and psychological well-being of the final year students who are working on their thesis.

National Disaster Management Agency of Indonesia recorded 3,406 disasters events during in Indonesia reached. Research suggest that people who lived in the disasters prone area such as need to be well prepared both physically and psychologically in order to reduce the risk of disaster and ensure that the people are resilience. One of disasters prone area in east part of Java island is East Java Province. In East Java total of disasters occurred are 1537 case. Therefore, it is important to identify their psychological preparedness and resilience in this region. Thus, this study aims to determine whether there is a correlation between resilience with psychological preparedness for disaster. This research was conducted among Airlangga University Health Faculty Students in Surabaya, East Java. This research uses a quantitative approach with a survey method. The scale used are Brief Resilience Scale and Psychological Preparedness for Potential Disasters Scale. The results obtained from this study are that there is a positive linear correlation between resilience and psychological preparedness for disaster with 0.338 coefficient correlation score. That means if the level of resilience is high, the level of psychological preparedness for disaster will also be high. Vice versa.

Indonesia has experienced numerous disasters for the past five years. Disasters not only happen in the urban area and rural area but also in the coastal area. Coastal communities are prone to a natural disaster such as tsunami. The tsunami not only causing infrastructure damage but also physical and psychological damage to the victims. Psychological preparedness could help to reduce the risk of the devastating impact of a disaster. However, there is not much research that investigates the topic. Aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of articles that discuss about psychological preparedness for disaster of coastal communities. The research was done using meta-analysis method to assess studies that discuss about psychological preparedness for disaster of coastal communities. It is tried to identify the psychological preparedness for disaster of coastal community construct that existed and the measurement tools that were used. It is found that psychological preparedness for disaster of coastal communities was a construct that were not clearly defined. However, several researchers had tried to develop a tool to measure psychological preparedness for disaster in general. However, there are no study that is contextually bound to coastal communities.

Higher education student often experienced financial problem during their study. This condition encourages them to seek financial support by working part-time. The challenge of being a part-time employee as well as being a student has influenced their psychological well-being condition. The problem will become more complicated when they received less than needed social support. Therefore, it is important to identify the relationship between social support and psychological wellbeing of part-time students. This study aimed to determine the relationship between social support and psychological well-being of students who work part-time. This research is a quantitative survey research. The scale used was social support and psychological well-being scale. The study shows that social support has a significant relationship with psychological well-being. Hypothesis test result show positive value that means if social support increase, psychological well-being will also increase. The correlation coefficient of 0.433 shows the relationship between variable classified as moderate.

The Lapindo Mud is a natural disaster occurred 13 years ago and still erupts today. Of course this disaster affects the people who live around it. The people who are the victims of the mud disaster is still survive. Therefore, it is important to understand how this people could survive in this disaster situation. Thus, the purpose of this quantitative, correlational study is to investigate the relationship between gratitude and psychological well-being for the resident around Lapindo mudflow. This research used quantitative method with survey. The scale used was The Gratitude Questionnaire-Six Item Form (GQ-6) developed by McCullough to measured the level of gratitude and Javanese Psychological Well-being Scale developed by Palupi to measured psychological well-being. The result showed that there is relationship between gratitude and psychological well-being in the population/resident around Lapindo mudflow.