Being COVID Warriors among COVIGNORANTS in Indonesia: The Importance of Mental Health Endurance-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Being COVID Warriors among COVIGNORANTS in Indonesia: The Importance of Mental Health Endurance

Published:2022-05-16 Issue:E Volume:10 Page:828-829
ISSN:1857-9655
Container-title:Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
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Short-container-title:Open Access Maced J Med Sci

Author:

Seipalla Fenska,Suwirman Williana

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has spread across the globe. COVID-19 cases keep increasing as July 04, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announce about 11,046,917 confirmed cases of COVID-19 that spread in 216 countries. The WHO has published helpful advice to keep and reduce the chances of being infected or spreading COVID-19 among the public such as cleaning hands regularly, maintaining physical distance, wearing masks properly, and encouraging to be in a ventilated area. An idiom for a person who ignores measures to prevent COVID-19 spread acts as if the world is not in the pandemic condition that is COVIGNORANT. Some of the COVIGNORANTS do not trust healthcare workers and spread a lot of false myths regarding COVID-19. Misperception and lack of knowledge about COVID-19 among COVIGNORANS lead to a sense of fear for healthcare workers. People are being a concern regarding contagion exposure from healthcare workers when they come home. Normalizing mental health discussion among healthcare workers should not be a stigma and must be considered one of the important policies that need to be applied among healthcare workers in Indonesia.

Publisher

Scientific Foundation SPIROSKI

Subject

General Medicine

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