Open AccessGENDER DIFFERENCES IN ANXIETY: AFTER 4 MONTHS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN LAMPUNG
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Lolita Sary,
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Octa Reni S,
Vida Wira Utami,
Erna Listyaningsih,
Achmad Farich,
Dessy Hermawan,
Helfi Agustin,
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Publication year - 2022
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.35912/icophmeds.v1i1.25
Subject(s) - accidental sampling , pandemic , anxiety , covid-19 , demography , sample (material) , accidental , medicine , psychology , affect (linguistics) , psychiatry , sociology , disease , population , chemistry , physics , communication , chromatography , acoustics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
Facing the Covid-19 pandemic with a high death rate in almost many countries has caused public anxiety. Lampung Province, 4 months after the State of Indonesia declared the Covid19 pandemic, had 1,203 deaths, 543 suspects and 21,878 confirmed cases. Gender is one of the factors that can affect anxiety in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. The purpose of the study was to determine the difference in anxiety between men and women after 4 months of the covid19 pandemic in Lampung. Quantitative research with a cross-check sectional approach, sample was obtained by accidental sampling by filling out an online questionnaire for the Lampung community aged ≥ 17 years with a total of 102 people. The sample consisted of 31 men and 71 women. The analysis using independent sample t test with Mann Whitney Non- Parametric. The result showed that there was no difference in anxiety between men and women after 4 months of the Covid19 pandemic in Lampung (Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) = 0.626).