Cross-Country Comparison of Public Awareness, Rumors, and Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Epidemic: Infodemiology Study

Hou, Zhiyuan; Du, Fanxing; Zhou, Xinyu; Jiang, Hao; Martin, Sam; Larson, Heidi; Lin, Leesa

doi:10.2196/21143

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“… Ye et al, 2020 , Yuan et al, 2020 , WHO, xxxx , Schünemann et al, 2020 , Thu et al, 2020 , Xiao and Torok, 2020 , Weston et al, 2018 , Toussaint et al, 2020 , Prachthauser et al, 2020 , Modi et al, 2020 , Hou et al, 2020 , Cvetković et al, 2020 , Parikh et al, 2020 , Reuben et al, 2020 , Lawshe, 1975 , Yusoff, 2019 , Saleem, 2020 , Kumari et al, 2020 Dec 11 , Chopra et al, 2020a , Ranjan et al, 2020 , Kumari et al, 2020 , Öcal et al, 2020 , Chakrawarty et al, 2020 Oct 31 , Machida et al, 2020 , Chopra et al, 2020b , Dkhar et al, 2020 , Agarwal et al, 2021 , Singh et al, 2020 .…”

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Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess preventive practices against COVID-19 pandemic in the general population

Agarwal¹,

Ranjan²,

Rohilla³

et al. 2021

Preventive Medicine Reports

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected millions of people worldwide with far-reaching socio-economic implications in society. The adoption of preventive practices by the public remains the mainstay in reducing the spread of COVID-19 but there is a dearth of validated tools to assess such infection prevention practices related to pandemics. This study was conducted to develop and validate a questionnaire for the assessment of preventive practices against COVID-19 in the general population. It was done following a standardized protocol involving questionnaire development through literature review, focused group discussions, in-depth interviews, expert opinion, and pre-testing. This was followed by the validation of the questionnaire through a cross-sectional survey on 108 individuals from diverse backgrounds in New Delhi, India in July 2020. Exploratory factor analysis was used to evaluate construct validity. Internal consistency was assessed by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The developed questionnaire for assessing preventive practices consists of two sections: the first section of 18 items to evaluate preventive practices and the second section of 19 items for assessing various reasons for deficiencies in the preventive practices. The first section has good content validity (CVR=0.81 and S-CVI/Av =0.97) and internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha coefficient 0.82). Thus, this questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool for the comprehensive assessment of preventive practices and barriers related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be useful in assessing the preparedness of the public and will be helpful to policymakers in designing appropriate interventions for protection against COVID-19.

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Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess preventive practices against COVID-19 pandemic in the general population

Agarwal¹,

Ranjan²,

Rohilla³

et al. 2021

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“…Indeed, misinformation concerning COVID-19 is associated with a greater fear of the disease [ 15 , 16 ]. Hou et al [ 31 ] reported that rumors and misinformation shared on the internet may induce panic behaviors such as purchasing herbal remedies via web-based shopping and storing them. Based on the HBM, PMT, and the existing literature, we hypothesized that confidence in COVID-19 pandemic control, risk perception of susceptibility to COVID-19, perceived satisfactory support, perceived sufficiency of resources for fighting COVID-19, and sources of obtaining COVID-19 information are all potential factors that may be associated with psychological responses to COVID-19.…”

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Anxiety and Suicidal Thoughts During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Country Comparative Study Among Indonesian, Taiwanese, and Thai University Students

Pramukti¹,

Strong²,

et al. 2020

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected the mental health of university students. Objective This study examined the psychological responses toward COVID-19 among university students from 3 countries—Indonesia, Taiwan, and Thailand. Methods We used a web-based, cross-sectional survey to recruit 1985 university students from 5 public universities (2 in Indonesia, 1 in Thailand, and 1 in Taiwan) via popular social media platforms such as Facebook, LINE, WhatsApp, and broadcast. All students (n=938 in Indonesia, n=734 in Thailand, and n=313 in Taiwan) answered questions concerning their anxiety, suicidal thoughts (or sadness), confidence in pandemic control, risk perception of susceptibility to infection, perceived support, resources for fighting infection, and sources of information in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results Among the 3 student groups, Thai students had the highest levels of anxiety but the lowest levels of confidence in pandemic control and available resources for fighting COVID-19. Factors associated with higher anxiety differed across countries. Less perceived satisfactory support was associated with more suicidal thoughts among Indonesian students. On the other hand, Taiwanese students were more negatively affected by information gathered from the internet and from medical staff than were Indonesian or Thai students. Conclusions Our findings suggest that health care providers in Thailand may need to pay special attention to Thai university students given that high levels of anxiety were observed in this study population. In addition, health care providers should establish a good support system for university students, as the results of this study indicate a negative association between support and suicidal thoughts.

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“…Second, we explicitly test the effect that population level norms, attitudes and perceived behavioral control have on the relative strength of the correlations. There are globally marked differences in the adoption as well as in the perceived effectiveness of specific behavioral actions such as mask wearing, physical distancing and other behaviors (Dryhurst et al, 2020;Hou et al, 2020;Morita et al, 2020). These differences at the population level may reinforce or diminish the psychological effects of individual level variables.…”

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Predicting behavioral intentions to prevent or mitigate COVID-19: A cross-cultural meta-analysis of attitudes, norms and perceived behavioral control effects

Fischer¹,

Karl²

2020

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We examined the effectiveness of attitudes, social norms and perceived behavioral control on behavioral intentions and behaviors that prevent and mitigate COVID-19 infections and collateral negative consequences. We conducted a random-effects meta-analysis with 29 effect sizes from 19 studies involving data from 11 countries (N = 15,328). We found strongest effects for perceived behavioral control, but also moderately strong effects of social norms. This is practically important in a pandemic environment because social norms in other health contexts typically show negligible effects and advice based on non-pandemic contexts may be misguided. Examining moderator effects, we are the first to demonstrate that in contexts with strong endorsement of social norms, norm-behavior effects were strengthened. Focusing on societal level differences, both wealth and individualism increased the strength of association between perceived behavioral control and behavioral intentions. We discuss the practical and theoretical implications of the findings for behavior change and public health interventions.

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Cross-Country Comparison of Public Awareness, Rumors, and Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Epidemic: Infodemiology Study

Cited by 94 publications

References 23 publications

Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess preventive practices against COVID-19 pandemic in the general population

Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess preventive practices against COVID-19 pandemic in the general population

Anxiety and Suicidal Thoughts During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Country Comparative Study Among Indonesian, Taiwanese, and Thai University Students

Predicting behavioral intentions to prevent or mitigate COVID-19: A cross-cultural meta-analysis of attitudes, norms and perceived behavioral control effects

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