The mediating effect of media usage on the relationship between anxiety/fear and physician-patient trust during the COVID-19 pandemic
| Autor: | Yiqun Gan, Jianhui Wu, Yidi Chen, Wenju Li, Huanya Zhu, Jinjin Ma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Mainland China
Longitudinal study Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Microblogging Anxiety Trust Physicians Pandemic medicine Humans Social media Longitudinal Studies Pandemics Applied Psychology SARS-CoV-2 Sentiment analysis Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 General Medicine General Chemistry Fear medicine.symptom Psychology Social Media Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychologyhealth. 37(7) |
| ISSN: | 1476-8321 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE: Our study explored whether and how media usage can mediate the path from anxiety and fear to physician-patient trust. DESIGN: Study 1 was a population-based, longitudinal study using nationally representative data from 29 provinces in mainland China. The baseline sample (N = 3233) was obtained from February 1 to 9, 2020. Follow-up (N = 1380) took place during March 17 to 24, 2020. Study 2 was a machine learning-based sentiment analysis in which data were captured from Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website, among the most popular official, unofficial, and health-related media accounts. The screened blogs from November to December 2019 and February to March 2020 were scored by Google APIs for positivity and magnitude. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Physician-patient trust. RESULTS: Study 1 showed fear and anxiety affected changes in physician-patient trust through media usage, the indirect effect of which was 0.14 (0.03) and the 95% CI was [0.08, 0.19]. Study 2 indicated a more positive image of physicians after the outbreak compared to before [F (2, 3537) = 3.646, p = 0.026, partial I·2=0.002]. CONCLUSION: The negative impact of anxiety and fear on physician-patient trust was mediated by media use, which can be explained by the more positive media image during the pandemic. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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