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The Nuaulu tribe is one of the indigenous tribes in Maluku Province, Indonesia which becomes malaria endemics area. This tribe still adheres to the customs and habits of its ancestors, one of them is the habit of hunting. It is carried out to fulfill the needs of life and the implementation of traditional rituals performed from afternoon to morning or days in the forest, depending on obtained sustenance. The hunting location is in a forest that is far from the residential area. Hunters are often exposed by mosquitoes from entering the forest to returning home. However, this is not considered as a problem, because of pasion in fulfilling the hunters’ needs of life and stress family experience. The results of this study showed that stress family experience and the hunting group had lower profile on Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF α) and Interleukin-10 (IL-10) compared to the group that did not hunt and no one infected by malaria. Malaria sufferers were only found in non-hunting groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Serious sleep disturbances among elderlies include attention or memory disorders, depression and often fall. A quasi experimental study design with pre-post test with control group was performed to determine effect of Benson's relaxation therapy on sleep quality among the elderly, and influences of sex, age and disease suffered differences. Of a total of 46 elderlies from a Social Institute in Ambon, 29 were taken for the treatment group and 19 for the control group. The treatment group was interfered with Benson's breathing relaxation for 14 days. Sleep quality was measured using Pittsburg sleep quality index form. Data were analyzed using independent t-test and multivariate of variance with signifinat level 0.05. This study found that Benson's relaxation therapy was able to improve significantly the elderly sleep quality (p-value = 0.046), and no significant difference between sex, age and disease suffered in elderly sleep quality (p-value > 0.05). The Benson's relaxation therapy was able to improve the elderly sleep quality especially in Inakaka Social Institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]