“Writing for Healing” Pembuatan Website, Buku, dan Video Edukatif dan Inspiratif untuk Pencegahan, Pengurangan Penularan serta Kecemasan terkait COVID-19

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on people's lives in all sectors. Adaptation to go through difficult times is needed so that all parties can survive and find solutions to various difficulties experienced. One way that can be done is by motivating others through writing activities. Karen A. Baikie and Kay Wilhelm (2005) found that writing about traumatic, stressful, and emotional events has an impact on improving physical and psychological health in both clinical and non-clinical populations. Besides, miksilva.com also writes that writing can also heal writers and readers from life pressures and feelings of anxiety. This community service focuses on creating educational and inspiring websites, books, and videos to prevent and reduce transmission and anxiety related to COVID-19. The team took the theme "Writing for Healing" (WFH) to create websites and books. On the website, there are menus for Home, About, Story, and Videos. The video produced contains education about COVID-19. From this activity, there were 65 articles collected up to June 14, 2020. The authors came from various cities and regions, including Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Cirebon, Bengkulu, Bogor, South Kalimantan, North Jakarta, Jember, Purbalingga, Lumajang, Tangerang, Bali, Sampang, Batam, Makassar, South Jakarta, etc. These writings were published on the website wfh.sv.ugm.ac.id, and 33 of the best writings were made into a book published by BPP UGM. As for the video, the team has made two videos entitled 'Apa Itu Kenormalan Baru' and 'Stay Happy, Berkawan dengan Pandemi'. The impact given from this program can be seen from the number of writers, readers, website visitors, and video viewers that have been broadcasted on the website and YouTube.