Fear of Covid-19 Related Factors among Females in Indonesia: An Online Survey

Autor: Roxsana Devi Tumanggor, Intan Imaroh, Andrew Cashin
Rok vydání: 2021
Zdroj: Jurnal Keperawatan Padjadjaran. 9:216-223
ISSN: 2442-7276
2338-5324
DOI: 10.24198/jkp.v9i3.1875
Popis: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a highly infectious flu outbreakwhich spread rapidly around the world. COVID-19 outbreak caused panicand is predicted to increase the prevalence of mental illnesses suchas depression and anxiety disorder . Along with increased anxiety anddecreased mood, increased fear has been detected.Purpose: To analyze the fear of COVID-19 related factors and measure thelevel of fear among women in Indonesia.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with 242 women who wasimplemented using the fear of COVID-19 instrument. A convenience samplewas utilized and was recruited via an online WhatsApp through personaltext to the potential respondents. The respondents stated their agreement toparticipate on the Google form before proceeding to fll in the data and answerthe instrument items. The analysis was carried out to obtain the frequencydistribution, mean and P-value. The mean score of each instrument item andthe overall items were calculated and compared based on demographic datausing t-test for two variables and analysis of variance (ANOVA) for three ormore variables. Furthermore, the scores obtained were categorized into lowand high fear levels based on the overall mean, where scores from 0-17were categorized as low-level fear and 18-35 as high-level fear.Results: The results showed that 90.9% of the respondents were withinthe age range of 15–25 years, with the majority being students. Based onthe results of statistical tests, it was discovered that question 3 (Q3) andquestion 4 (Q4) were the two items that affected the level of women’s fearto COVID-19. Furthermore, the results of statistical tests using ANOVAshowed that occupation (P-Value of 0.01) and age (P-Value of 0.004) has asignifcant effect on the fear of COVID-19. In addition, based on the overallscore calculation showed that 72.3% samples have high-level fear and 27.7%has low-level fear. Based on the results of this study, it was discovered thatwomen’s age and occupation influence the level of fear to COVID-19.Conclusion: This study highlighted the signifcance of pandemic relatedfear and can inform the development of future women’s health studies.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz: