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This research aims determine the literacy practices used by government officials to prevent the spread of hoaxes and misinformation. The pandemic created a crisis that crowded information sources;in that situation, social media users had to decide which information to trust and use as the primary reference. As a result of the Covid-19 cases, the spread of false information has increased. This study employs a qualitative narrative analysis method with the MAXDA software tool to investigate the government's digital literacy function. According to the study's findings, the government used social media under the ministry of information and communication to filter information for social media users. To support this step, the government also campaigned for an electronic transaction law as a preventive measure to prevent the spread of hoaxes on social media. In addition, to create massive information, the ministry of information and communication uses several accounts under the coordination of the ministry to provide information. The findings underline the ability to create digital literacy by the ministry of information and communication through the electronic transaction law. In the last three years, the intensity of tweets by the Ministry of Communication and Information account has increased;this is based on the increase in Covid-19 cases and the implementation of large-scale social distancing policies in Indonesia. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Indonesian government carries out vaccination program as part of the COVID-19 response. This study aimed to determine student responses to the news of COVID-19 vaccination through online media in August 2021. The media plays an essential role in understanding the importance of vaccines for the community. COVID-19 cases in Indonesia;simultaneously, the government pushed for a vaccination program. This study uses a stimulus-organism-response approach, the SOR approach, that looks at the individual's (organism) perception of the message (stimulus) received. The SOR theory looks at the individual's perception of policies through online media;the elements in SOR analysis look at the stimulus through student responses. The study uses descriptive quantitative methods to describe student responses through purposive sampling. The finding of this study show three categories of aspects;appropriate sources, covering both sides, and verification steps. According to this study, students rate vaccination news differently in three categories: first, aspects of appropriate types of media with assessment (32%), second, cover both sides with assessment (33%), and third, verification with assessment (35%) as a result of news broadcast on online news, pupils can get vaccination programs developed by the government to combat COVID-19. This acceptability is shown by a change in the attitude of the respondents, from being confident to being more confident about carrying out the Covid-19 vaccination. This study classifies the role of online media in shaping students' impressions of government policies and initiatives during the COVID-19 time. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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This study aims to examine the role of social media in filtering the spread of COVID-19 information. Covid-19 information is crowdsourcing Information. Anxiety caused by social media information must be addressed through explicit government regulations on handling COVID-19. As a result, governments must understand the emotions and sentiments conveyed on social media. Based on this point of view, this study examines the role of the government in responding to health information from social media through the ministry of health. This study uses a qualitative exploration method with the NvivoPlus12 tool in processing Ministry of Health data in providing health education, covid-19 information, and policy responses to COVID-19. This analysis shows that the ministry of health functions based on the type of information presented through official accounts, first, as a means of socialization. Second, providing real-time information as a medium for public information. Third, the Ministry of Health cooperates with other ministries to encourage policies, especially the handling of COVID-19. This finding is in line with the United Nations 2020 research that virtual services can be realized by using social media to build services and convey Information;In addition, this function makes it easier to know the community's response so that policies and management of COVID-19 run smoothly. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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This study aims to analyze risk communication related to Covid-19 conducted by three Provincial Health Offices on their Instagram account. This research used descriptive quantitative method with a content analysis approach. The study was limited to the first 6-month-period of crisis moments in Indonesia from March to August 2020. The unit of analysis were postings of three accounts of the Provincial Health offices on Instagram. The population of this study were 970 postings and the samples were 792 postings related to Covid-19 that were chosen using purposive sampling technique. The instruments were coding instrument which were organized in a codebook. It consists of 7 main codes based on previous established study. The main codes were modified into 20 subcodes. The code and subcodes were tested by 4 coders using Krippendorff 's alpha (α) for its intercoder' s reliability. All categories were reliable (α>0.8). The results showed that risk communication varied among three Provincial Health Offices and in some area needs improvement. The most types of postings were are in the form of posters with caption or posters only (66.5%) and the least types of postings were video or Instagram TV (0.1%). Some of the messages' target were made to provide information (46.6%) and only a few were aimed at building public trust. The most targeted audiences were general public (91.6%), while the least targeted audiences were organizations (0.1%). Covid-19 content in the form of behavior change education was the most uploaded postings (46.2%) while government policies related to covid-19 were very limited in the postings (3.5%). Most of the postings cited websites and or social media (54.9%) for references and scientific journals (0.3%) were the least cited. The most widely used message intonation was with positive intonation (84.8%). Instagram plays as an important complementary tool for risk communication by the government. Provincial Health Offices may add more postings that will improve public trust to the government in managing and handling Covid-19 problems and to improve the public engagement, understanding, and responses to Covid-19. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of International Journal of Infectious Diseases is the property of Elsevier B.V. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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Introduction: The anxiety of pregnant women during the Covid-19 pandemic increased compared to pregnancy in ordinary conditions because pregnant women are one of the populations vulnerable to Covid-19 infection. The Covid-19 Pandemic can affect the health of pregnant women and fetuses, even feared increased morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to determine the anxiety of pregnant women, especially related to maternal and infant health in the Covid-19 pandemic. Method: This research is using a quantitative descriptive method with a cross-sectional design. The sample in this study were all pregnant women who were willing to take part in this study. Respondents came from three islands in Indonesia, namely Java, Sulawesi and Sumatra. The sampling technique used accidental sampling;as many as 20 respondents carried out checks at health facilities during the pandemic Covid-19. Researchers adopted the Pregnancy Stress Rating Scale (PSRS) instrument for 36 items statement and converted it in a google form for online surveys. The data analysis in this study used a frequency distribution. Results: The results showed that most of the pregnant women who experienced a severe level of anxiety in "finding safe health facilities for mothers and babies during pregnancy, and childbirth" (32.3) with a tertiary level of education (71.4), live outside the island of Java (83.3), and anxiety increased in the second trimester (61.5) and the third trimester (66.7). Conclusion:The emotional well-being of pregnant women must be maintained to produce a good quality pregnancy outcome, so that health workers need to identify pregnant women's anxiety earlyto minimize its effects. In addition, pregnant women must have the self-awareness to assess the health conditions, including anxiety during the pregnancy process.