ABSTRACT
Online learning causes student anxiety during the Covid-19 pandemic. Anticipatory guidance is a form of guidance provided for students to anticipate the occurrence of anxiety. However, the problem is that students in Indonesia consider learning assignments to be the cause of anxiety during online learning. This makes the reason that the importance of guidance for students in preventing anxiety so that online learning can be carried out effectively. The purpose of this research is to build an android-based application to anticipate the occurrence of anxiety for students that is easily accessible and understandable. This research method uses Research & Development (R&D). The subjects in this study were material experts, media experts, and students. The data collection tool used is in the form of a validation sheet to obtain an assessment of the validator or experts. The results show that after design validation by the three material experts an average score of 84.8 was very good and the validation of the three media experts obtained an average score of 72.14 in the good category. Based on the ten student opinions regarding anticipatory guidance on anxiety using an Android-based application, the score was very good in terms of appearance, ease of use of the application and material content related to material clarity, and language. Of the ten students' opinions regarding the android-based application, it gave a proper value to be used as anticipatory guidance on student anxiety during online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2022 International Journal of Health Sciences.
ABSTRACT
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) menjadi pandemi di seluruh dunia termasuk di Indonesia. Penularan COVID-19 di Indonesia berlangsung sangat cepat dan mengenai 34 provinsi bahkan banyak provinsi yang menjadi zona merah. Jawa Tengah sendiri termasuk kedalam provinsi dengan penularan COVID-19 yang sangat cepat. Pengetahuan dan sikap masyarakat dalam menghadapi pandemi COVID-19 sangatlah penting untuk dapat mengurangi resiko tertular antara sesama masyarakat. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan antara pengetahuan dan sikap masyarakat dalam pencegahan penularaan COVID-19. Desain penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif analitik dengan pendekatan cross sectional dengan jumlah sampel sebesar 65 responden yang dipilih dengan menggunakan metode random sampling. Pengumpulan data menggunakan kuesioner google form dan dianalisa menggunakan uji Chi-Square. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa pengetahuan berhubungan dengan sikap masyarakat dalam pencegahan penularan COVID-19 dengan nilai p value (0000). Pengetahuan yang baik dan sikap yang positif dari masyarakat dalam menghadapi pandemi COVID-19 dapat membuat masyarakat melakukan tindakan nyata untuk mengurangi resiko tertular COVID-19.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: The spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread throughout the world and has created a level of fear, uncertainty that has an impact on several aspects of life including mental health. The rapid spread of the Corona Virus or COVID-19 throughout the world has damaged the order of life starting from the economy, social, politics, education, culture, religion and health. Various efforts have been made by the Indonesian government with social distancing or physical distancing, washing hands with soap and staying active at home. Conditions that change suddenly will make people unprepared to deal with it, especially in the psychological condition of the Indonesian people who experience a lot of anxiety. AIM: The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of mindfulness meditation based on spiritual care on the level of community anxiety due to the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: This type of research uses experimental quantitative research using a randomized controlled trial research design. This research was conducted for 4 weeks in January-February 2021. The population of this study is the Surabaya community. The sampling technique used consecutive sampling technique and was divided into two groups, namely the intervention group as many as 61 respondents and the control group as many as 61 respondents. Data analysis used paired t test and independent t test with a significance value of p < 0.05. This research questionnaire uses the DASS 42 questionnaire has reliability 0.82 and the validity test gets the Cronbach alpha value is 0.85. RESULTS: The average level of anxiety before doing the spiritual care-based mindfulness meditation intervention in the intervention group was 17.28 (severe anxiety) and 17.18 in the control group (severe anxiety) with p = 1.000 which means there is no difference in the average level of anxiety whereas After being given the intervention, the average level of anxiety in the intervention group was 6.03 (normal anxiety) and 18.06 in the control group (severe anxiety) with p = 0.000, which means that there is a difference in the average level of anxiety in the intervention group and the control group after being given the intervention. CONCLUSION: Mindfulness meditation based on spiritual care can reduce people’s anxiety levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2021 Siti Nur Hasina, Iis Noventi, P. H. Livana, Dodik Hartono.