Open AccessInformation Needs Among Indonesian People Related to COVID-19
Author(s) -
Rokhmayanti Rokhmayanti,
Sulistyawati Sulistyawati,
Budi Aji,
Siwi Pramatama Mars Wijayanti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
procedia of social sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2722-0672
DOI - 10.21070/pssh.v1i.14
Subject(s) - indonesian , pandemic , covid-19 , marital status , information seeking , transmission (telecommunications) , psychology , test (biology) , descriptive statistics , information seeking behavior , demography , medicine , sociology , statistics , population , computer science , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mathematics , telecommunications , philosophy , linguistics , paleontology , pathology , library science , biology
This is an online survey research of 816 respondents aged ≥ 18 years throughout Indonesia, aiming at analyzing the information seeking behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. This is a descriptive analytic research with cross-sectional design, aiming at describing the information seeking behavior of Indonesian people during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sociodemographic data and the respondents‘ information seeking behavior were analyzed descriptively, and then using the Chi-Square Test. Significant results (p<0,05) were found in the relationship between age and marital status with the information seeking behavior about the transmission of COVID-19 in Indonesia, the number of infected people in Indonesia, and the number of infected people in the world. This research results can be used as a reference for related parties in providing information about COVID-19 to be able to consider the age group and community marital status, thus it is expected to influence knowledge as well as to increase the behavior of preventing community against the COVID-19 transmission.