| dc.description.abstract | Background: The spread of the COVID-19 virus has spread widely
throughout the world, which affects various aspects (Lebov et al., 2017).
Several aspects affected by the transmission of the COVID-19 virus are
psychological / mental health impacts caused by the implementation of
policies from various countries in the form of a physical distancing system
(Ornell, Schuch, Sordi, & Kessler, 2020).
Objectives: Analyze the relationship between physical distancing and the
mental health of Indonesian community during Covid-19.
Methods: The cross-sectional study design. The sample of the study was
the Indonesian people affected by the covid-19 pandemic who were taken
based on purposive sampling with complete answer criteria as many as
1,090 respondents. The research instrument consisted of 2 questionnaires,
including: a method questionnaire in physical distancing practices methods
consisting of 11 items of physical distancing application to prevent the
spread of the Covid-19 virus as recommended by World Health
Organization. The Self-Reporting Questionnaire-29 is a questionnaire
issued by the Directorate of Mental Health Services of the Indonesian
Ministry of Health with the domains of anxiety and depression,
psychomatics, symptoms of psychotic disorders, trauma stress. Parametric
statistical tests used the Pearson test (p-value < 0.05).
Results: The results obtained a p-value of 0.03, which means that there is
a physical distancing relationship with the mental health of the Indonesian
people during Covid-19.
Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between physical distancing
and the mental health of the Indonesian people. Recommendations for
health workers, especially nurses in providing health services to the
community, must be more comprehensive and recognize client responses
to prevent psychological impacts. | en_US |
