Gambaran Stigma Masyarakat tentang Covid-19 di Kepanjen Malang

Abstract

Stigma is a sign that is created on the human body to be shown and to inform the public that a person who has that sign constitutes no morals and primness expression that belongs to someone. The purpose of this study is to understand society's stigma about Covid 19 in Cepokomulyo Village, Kepanjen sub-district Malang regency. The research design used in this research is a descriptive method and cross-sectional approach. The sampling technique in this research uses Cluster Sampling of as many as 364 respondents. The respondents were given a questionnaire by the researcher, it is a questionnaire variable of society stigma (sign, signal, stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination) to validate the data. In validating the questionnaire, the researcher used I-CVI (content validity index). And the data is stated valid with a score of 0.935. Reliability test from all the questionnaires which had been fulfilled by the respondents gave the results, those are signal/cues 0.829, Stereotypes 0.805, prejudice 0.850, and discrimination 0.802. As the result of the research, there are 4 variables that mean good categories. The percentage highest scores lie in stereotypes variable as many as 94.2% (n=364), which means the society stigma is good. Because society does not judge people by appearance. The conclusion, society did not give a bad stigma about Covid 19. Good communication and getting information can be solutions to build up society's stigma about covid 19. And the bad stigma would not show up in society.