The coronavirus (COVID‐19) fatality risk perception of US adult residents in March and April 2020
| Autor: | Niepel, Christoph, Kranz, Dirk, Borgonovi, Francesca, Emslander, Valentin, Greiff, Samuel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Adult
Male 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Brief‐Report COVID‐19 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Pneumonia Viral medicine.disease_cause repeated cross‐sectional design Betacoronavirus 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine COVID‐19 risk perception Risk Factors Pandemic Epidemiology Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Pandemics Applied Psychology Coronavirus 030505 public health SARS-CoV-2 business.industry COVID-19 General Medicine Risk perception coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2 Brief‐Reports COVID‐19 Female Coronavirus Infections 0305 other medical science business health‐protective behaviour Demography |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Health Psychology |
| ISSN: | 2044-8287 1359-107X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/bjhp.12438 |
| Popis: | The study compares empirical results on the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (causing COVID-19) fatality risk perception of US adult residents stratified for age, gender, and race in mid-March 2020 (N1 = 1,182) and mid-April 2020 (N2 = 953). While the fatality risk perception has increased from March 2020 to April 2020, our findings suggest that many US adult residents severely underestimated their absolute and relative fatality risk (i.e., differentiated for subgroups defined by pre-existing medical conditions and age) at both time points compared to current epidemiological figures. These results are worrying because risk perception, as our study indicates, relates to actual or intended health-protective behaviour that can reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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