The Journal of Palembang Nursing Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2022): September 2022

COVID-19 status and its prevention among Indonesian adults

Nurhayati, Nurhayati (Unknown)
Dewi Setyawati, Asih (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
11 Sep 2022

Abstract

Background: The world has now impacted by COVID-19. Indonesia is one of the countries predicted to be affected over a longer period. The rapidly screening of COVID-19 status among Indonesians is important to prevent the massive spread of COVID-19. Purpose: The study aimed to investigate the covid status, and its prevention among Indonesians. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed among Indonesians using a web-based survey that was randomly distributed using social media after a year of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Indonesia. There were 247 respondents enrolled this study. An emerging COVID-19 tool was utilised for data collection. Descriptive statistics and linear regression were applied with the significance value of 0.05. Results: From a total of 247 participants, 89 respondents had a travel history to the red zone area of COVID-19. 33% of them felt good but isolating after COVID-19 exposure. Most of them used facemasks (50.2%) and washing hands (36%) as health prevention during the COVID-19 outbreak. Conclusions: Identification of Covid status is important to prevent COVID-19 exposure.

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jpns

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Nursing

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The Journal of Palembang Nursing Studies (JPNS) is a scholarly platform that has been designed to accommodate scientific works for researchers, lecturers, and nursing students. JPNS platform was started in January 2022. JPNS was designed using worldwide references that focus on the field of nursing ...