SOCIAL DISTANCING POLICY AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING PUBLIC AWARENESS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Authors

Ulfa Oktaviani, Master Program in Public Health, Health Policy and Administration, Faculty of Public Health Universitas Indonesia, Depok, IndonesiaFollow
Helen Andriani, Department of Health Administration and Policy, Faculty of Public Health Universitas Indonesia, Depok, IndonesiaFollow

Abstract

To reduce COVID-19 transmission during the epidemic, most countries implemented a social distancing policy. However, without the people's compliance, this implementation will be useless. The combination of individual and environmental variables is critical to the success of initiating and maintaining health behaviors. The purpose of this study is to assess public participation toward obedience social distancing policy as a means of improving public awareness during COVID-19 pandemic. A literature review was used in this research. PubMed, Google Scholar, and ProQuest, with a cut-off date of 29 June 2021, were used to do an electronic search with no language constraints. There were ten included studies. Several research looked at the impact of combining social distancing strategies with other interventions such as school closure, reduced contact with the community, antiviral treatment and prophylaxis, and immunization. This study proves that social distancing has a good effect if the general public implements it well. More research is needed to determine the factors that influence the efficacy of social distancing strategies. In order for the community to comply with social distancing policies during the epidemic, the government must also be more aggressive in pursuing policy violators.

Bahasa Abstract

Untuk mengurangi penularan COVID-19 selama epidemi, sebagian besar negara menerapkan kebijakan jarak sosial. Namun, tanpa kepatuhan masyarakat, implementasi ini akan sia-sia. Kombinasi variabel individu dan lingkungan sangat penting untuk keberhasilan memulai dan mempertahankan perilaku kesehatan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menilai partisipasi masyarakat terhadap kepatuhan terhadap kebijakan social distancing sebagai sarana untuk meningkatkan kesadaran masyarakat selama masa pandemi COVID-19. Tinjauan pustaka digunakan dalam penelitian ini. PubMed, Google Scholar, dan ProQuest, dengan batas waktu 29 Juni 2021, digunakan untuk melakukan penelusuran elektronik tanpa kendala bahasa. Ada sepuluh studi yang disertakan. Beberapa penelitian melihat dampak dari menggabungkan strategi jarak sosial dengan intervensi lain seperti penutupan sekolah, pengurangan kontak dengan masyarakat, pengobatan antivirus dan profilaksis, dan imunisasi. Penelitian ini membuktikan bahwa social distancing memiliki efek yang baik jika masyarakat umum menerapkannya dengan baik. Penelitian lebih lanjut diperlukan untuk menentukan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kemanjuran strategi jarak sosial. Agar masyarakat mematuhi kebijakan social distancing selama wabah, pemerintah juga harus lebih agresif dalam mengejar pelanggar kebijakan.

Recommended Citation

Oktaviani, Ulfa and Andriani, Helen (2022) "SOCIAL DISTANCING POLICY AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING PUBLIC AWARENESS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A LITERATURE REVIEW," Journal of Indonesian Health Policy and Administration: Vol. 7: No. 1, Article 3.
DOI: 10.7454/ihpa.v7i1.5839
Available at: https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/ihpa/vol7/iss1/3