1. LIDYA NATALIA BR SINUHAJI - Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan Mitra Husada Medan.
The WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19 health report estimates a high R 0 (reproduction number) of 2–2.5. The latest report from WHO on March 3, estimated the global death rate which is the infection rate of COVID-19 to be 3.4%. It was first reported in a cohort of 41 patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID- 19 pneumonia. The most common symptoms reported were fever (43.8% of cases upon admission and 88.7% during hospitalization) and cough (67.8%). Diarrhea was rare (3.8%). Report of radiological findings on computed tomography (CT) of the chest (56.4%). No radiographic abnormalities were found in 157 of 877 (17.9%) patients with less severe COVID-19 and five of 173 (2.9%) patients with severe symptoms of COVID-19. Lymphocytopenia was reported in 83.2% of patients on admission. This study used a descriptive quantitative research design with a cross sectional approach. The target population in this study were 24 postpartum mothers. The number of samples used was 24 obtained using a total sampling technique. The data analysis technique used the chi square test. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of social distancing on health care worker services in postpartum and breastfeeding during the Covid-19 pandemic at the Sumbul Pegagan District Health Center, Dairi Regency in 2020. The majority of respondents said that social distancing has an effect on the health care services for postpartum mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic, amounting to 13 people (54.2%) and 11 people (45.8%) said Social Distancing had no effect on health care services for postpartum mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The effectiveness of health care workers with a number of 12 people (50%) said it was not effective and 12 people (50%) said it was effective. There is a social distancing effect on health care services for postpartum mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic (p value: 0.000 <α: 0.05). There is a social distancing effect on health care services for postpartum mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is recommended that health workers improve the best, quality and effective health services to patients, especially midwifery care services for post-partum mothers by following health protocols and optimizing online or telemedicine-based health services.
Social Distancing, Health Care Services, COVID-19, Postpartum.