Suciska, Wulan and Nurdin, Bartoven Vivit (2022) Covid-19 health communication barriers in multicultural communities in Indonesia. Jurnal Studi Komunikasi, 6 (3). pp. 827-840. ISSN 2549-7294

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Abstract

The central government and local governments conducted a series of health communication efforts to deal with the Covid-19pandemic. However, there is still a behaviourof rejectionin the community that is published in the news in mass media, including online media. In public health, including health communication programs, especially in the healthbelief model, a person’s behaviour to follow or refuse can be influenced by health beliefs. Uncertainty can be an obstacle to behaviour. From a multicultural perspective, beliefs are one of the things that affect public health behaviour. This study tried to uncover the barriers to Covid-19 health communication in multicultural communities in Indonesia using online news contentanalysismethodsonthe fivemost popular news websites in Indonesia, namely okezone.com, tribunnews.com, pikiran-rakyat.com, kompas.com, and detik.com. The results revealed that the top five barriers to health communication were religion (17.2%), survival (12.67%), beliefs that Covid-19 does not exist (9.9%), self-immunity confidence (9.9%), and stigma (9.9%)

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	health communication, health belief model, barriers, multicultural
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik (FISIP) > Prodi Komunikasi
Depositing User:	WULAN SUCISKA
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2026 03:36
Last Modified:	09 Mar 2026 03:36
URI:	http://repository.lppm.unila.ac.id/id/eprint/54818

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