Community awareness and participation in handling COVID-19 in Surabaya, Indonesia

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the level of public awareness and participation in handling Covid-19 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Surabaya was one of the second cities with the largest covid-19 events in Indonesia, after Jakarta. This research used survey method. The sample was determined by the simple random sampling method. The sample size in this study was 251 respondents. Research data were collected using a questionnaire, and analyzed with descriptive analysis. The results showed: an average awareness value of 3.43 (very high) and participation of 1.72 (very high), high business initiatives by 55%, a correlation value between awareness and participation of 0.25 included in the weak category. The results of this study can provide significant benefits in the disciplines of education and health psychology. The mayors can use the findings in this study to overcome the problem of Covid-19 in the community. It turns out that to reduce the spread of covid-19 is not only enough to do with health education, but increasing awareness and participation in the community is very important and significant in overcoming the spread of covid-19 due to lack of awareness in the application of physical and social distancing, the use of masks, hand washing.