Abstract

Background: Community activities have decreased due to the COVID 19 pandemic, which has an impact on productivity. Public fervor over the COVID 19 pandemic is one of the causes of a decline in community activity in Bengkulu Province.

Aim: To analyze the anxiety and community activity during the COVID 19 pandemic in Bengkulu Province

Study Design:Quantitative research with analytic description design correlates the relationship of anxiety during the COVID 19 pandemic with economic, educational, employment, and social life. The number of samples was 712 respondents using a random sampling method.

Results: The COVID 19 pandemic affected public health, in the form of feeling anxious and very anxious as many as 531 people (74.6%). Bivariate analysis has an anxiety relationship with economic life, education, work, and social life. A pandemic and a new normal era of community activity can be accomplished by implementing health protocols to prevent and control COVID 19. During the COVID 19 pandemic, most of the impacts on public health were feeling anxious and impacting on economic life, education, work, and society.

Conclusion: Community activities in the pandemic and post-pandemic periods can be carried out with due regard to and discipline in applying health protocols including wearing masks, managing physical distance, and applying clean and healthy living behaviors.

Keywords: Anxiety, Activities, Public Health