Message content is crucial part of information dissemination that people use in communication and interaction. Making the message content delivered via mass media and new media concerning social live improvement, including health issues, more varied could be a preventive course during a pandemic. Health-related message concerning the prevention of Covid-19 spread is public basic right, ie to get safety and guarantee from the government. Such message could be used as a guideline to face the new normal lifestyle. This study aims to discover the extent of correlation between Covid-19-related message contents and public attitude towards conforming to social distancing policies, using Cognitive-Response Theory. This study employed correlational quantitative method on 384 respondents. Data was collected using questionnaires, observation, interviews, and literature study
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