Abstract
This study analyzes the condition of stress and anxiety in late adulthood in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic based on demographics. The research used quantitative methods with an online survey by survey monkey program involved 669 respondents based on twelve ethnicities in Indonesia. The data of this research analysis by the Rasch analysis model. The results showed generally experienced stress and anxiety in the moderate category although some respondents also experienced stress and anxiety in mild and severe categories, and only a small proportion was in the normal category. The need for continued treatment requires counselors, psychologists, and other relevant therapists.
Highlights
The entire world is troubled by the case of a deadly virus originating from Wuhan in China’s Hubei Province, which emerged in late 2019 (Holshue et al, 2020)
Item SSC1 has a stressful statement that everyone feels the condition, while the statement “I feel hard to calm down when seeing/reading related to COVID-19” and vice versa with item SHC7 has a stressful statement that not everyone feels the condition, as for the statement “I am offended when I hear about COVID-19”
Severe conditions were 82 respondents with a logit range of +1.79 to +0.28, 410 respondents were under moderate stress with a logit range of +0.23 to -2.48, 156 respondents were in mild stress conditions with a logit range of -2.63 until -5.83, and 11 respondents were under normal stress conditions related to COVID-19
Summary
The entire world is troubled by the case of a deadly virus originating from Wuhan in China’s Hubei Province, which emerged in late 2019 (Holshue et al, 2020). On January 11, China announced the first death caused by the new virus was a 61-year-old man, who was exposed in the seafood market (Who, 2020c). On 11 February, WHO announced the name for the new virus was COVID-19 (Organization, 2020), a few weeks later on 11 March 2020 around 114 countries were exposed to COVID-19, this condition caused WHO to declare COVID-19 as a pandemic (Organization, 2020). The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic only 2 and a half months after the epidemic spread throughout the world (Who, 2020a). WHO stated that the Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30, 2020(Organization, 2020; Who, 2020a)
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