STIGMA, ANXIETY, RELIGIOSITY, AND ECONOMIC ON COVID-19 PREVENTIVE EFFORTS

Abstract

Covid-19 can cause problems regarding physical, psychological, and socioeconomic health. It is due to the disease characteristics that are easily transmitted and can lead to death. Thus, strict measures are needed to reduce the spread of the disease, in this case, called preventive efforts. This study aims to determine the effect of stigma, anxiety, level of religiosity, and economic condition on Covid-19 preventive efforts. A cross-sectional design, data collection method using online survey with non-probability snowball sampling. The total sample of 451 students consisted of students in the field of health (the College of Health Sciences) and the field of religion (the State Islamic Institute). Analysis of the data in this study used a logistic regression test. There was an effect of stigma (P value=0.000), level of anxiety (P value=0.000), and economic condition (P value=0.001) on Covid-19 preventive efforts, while there was no effect of the level of religiosity on Covid-19 preventive efforts. The most influential variable on Covid-19 preventive efforts was a stigma with an Odds Ratio (OR) of 2.256. If the stigma was low, there was no anxiety and the economic conditions were good, then there was a high probability of making preventive efforts.