Public Expectations On The Covid-19 Epidemic in Medan City Lufthiani 1, Cholina Trisa Siregar 2, Siti Zahara Nasution 3, Reni Asmara Ariga 4, Nunung Febriany Sitepu 5, Dudut Tanjung 6
a) Faculty of Nursing, Sumatera Utara University,
Jalan Prof Maas 3 Medan 20155, Indonesia
(*) lufthiani[at]usu.ac.id
Abstract
Background: Covid-19 is a health problem that has plagued the global scale. The incidence of disease continues to increase sharply even have an impact on various lines of life. The desire and hope of the public for efforts to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus have been carried out by all groups of people and government. The publics expectation in facing the Covid-19 outbreak will have an impact on changing the basic attitude of life especially in understanding the importance of health.
Purpose: To describe the publics expectations of the Covid-19 outbreak in Medan
Method: This research design is descriptive. Respondents in this study were 1070 respondents who were randomly selected and carried out in Medan City. The data was collected using an internet application that was distributed to the public via mobile social media from May to June 2020.
Results: This study was obtained based on the results of the frequency distribution of community expectations of the incidence of the Covid-19 outbreak in Medan, which is living healthier 305 respondents (28.5%), outbreaks there are no longer 210 respondents (19.6%), normal life 165 respondents returned (15.4%), 160 respondents expected it will disappeared (15%), 140 fellow respondents (13.1%) Concern, and the Economy improved by 90 respondents (8.4%). The results of the research in the Public Expectations category for the Covid-19 Outbreak in Medan City obtained a high expectation level of the Medan city community with a high level of expectation with 515 respondents (48.1%).
Conclusion: There is high expectation in the community for the Covid-19 Outbreak in Medan, this means that the more important respondents assess a variable, the higher their expectations for these variables are so that people^s expectations can be realized properly, and vice versa.
