International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS)
Vol 10, No 1: March 2021

Psychological impact among health workers in effort to facing the COVID-19 in Indonesia

Dede Nasrullah (University Muhammadiyah of Surabaya)
Muhammad Natsir (Departement of Health Central Java Province)
Retno Twistiandayani (University of Gresik)
Lilis Rohayani (Jenderal Achmad Yani Cimahi Institute of Health Sciences)
Siswanto Siswanto (Prof. Dr. Soerojo Mental Hospital Magelang,)
Ni Made Sumartyawati (Mataram Institute of Health Sciences)
Uswatun Hasanah (University Muhammadiyah of Surabaya)
Ade Herman Surya Direja (Tri Mandiri Sakti Bengkulu Institute of Health Sciences)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Mar 2021

Abstract

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Indonesia has a psychological impact among health workers who are working in hospital and caring for patients with positive COVID-19. This study aimed to examines the psychological impact among health workers in effort to facing the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in Indonesia. Snowball sampling technique was employed to gather the sample in the eight islands. The health workers were responded to the depression anxiety stress scales (DASS-42) questionnaire, with the total of 644 respondents. The results of this study showed that about 65.8% of respondents experienced anxiety due to COVID-19 outbreak, There were 3.3% experienced extremely severe anxiety and 33.1% experienced mild anxiety. Whereas those experienced stress due to COVID-19 outbreak were 55%, extremely severe stress levels were 0.8% and mild stress were 34.5%. Health workers who experienced depression were 23.5%. There were 0.5% with very severe depression and mild depression was 11.2%. There is a closed correlation between anxiety (r=0.152 p=0.000), stress (r=0.086 p=0.029), and depression (r=0.111 p=0.005), to the worried of being alienated if infected coronavirus (COVID-19). The Indonesian government has to handle the anxiety, stress and depression that occurs in health workers in particular and can provide protection to medical personnel so that they do not feel alienated by those around them.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJPHS

Publisher

Subject

Health Professions

Description

International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes material on all aspects of public health science. This IJPHS provides the ideal platform for the discussion of more sophisticated public health research and practice for authors and readers world ...