The Impact of COVID-19: Examining the Relationship Between Physical Distancing and Anxiety in Female Medical Students
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Anxiety is a negative emotion that causes feelings of discomfort and is accompanied by somatic symptoms such as sweating and palpitations, some of them having difficulty breathing. This happens when a person is under pressure. With the pandemic requiring students to follow physical distancing, students must re-adapt to the learning system. Women tend to experience anxiety more quickly than men due to hormones and body responses. Therefore, the anxiety experienced by UMM FK students is suspected to have increased due to their preoccupation with physical distancing. The objective of this research is To determine the relationship between preoccupation with physical distancing due to COVID-19 and the anxiety of female students of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Muhammadiyah Malang. Methods This study uses an observational analysis with a cross-sectional approach. The sample was 82 female students who met the inclusion criteria, and it was purposive. Data were measured using the HARS questionnaire instrument and the physical distancing preoccupation questionnaire. Based on the results of the correlation analysis test using the Spearman rho correlation test in SPSS version 25, rho = 0.00 (rho<0.05) was obtained, which stated a meaningful relationship between physical distancing preoccupation and the degree of anxiety. Conclusion There is a relationship between physical distancing preoccupation due to COVID-19 and the degree of anxiety of FK UMM students.
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