Health communication and trust in institutions during the COVID-19 lockdown in China's urban communities

Yang, Fan; Huang, Zili

doi:10.1016/j.ugj.2021.10.001

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“…Since late February of 2020, when the pandemic had spread for over two months and reached the peak in China, the whole country was strictly locked down and the resulting inconveniences and losses started to drive people crazy. Fear of the virus and suspicious people prevailed, and the social mood was fueled and distorted by tons of rumors about Hubei people and Hubei government’s misconducts in dealing with the pandemic (Yang & Huang, 2021 ). As a result, hating and stigmatizing any people or things that had connection with Hubei Province became popular.…”

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Coping strategies, stigmatizing attitude, and cyberbullying among Chinese college students during the COVID-19 lockdown

2022

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic provides hotbed for hatred and violence, which could be especially true among college students, the most active users of internet and social media. Based on a national sample of Chinese college students ( N = 1,673), the present study aims to explore the clustered nature of stress coping strategies, as well as its associations with the participants’ stigmatizing attitude and cyberbullying behaviors towards people in Hubei Province, the place where the first COVID-19 case was reported and recognized as China’s epicenter of the pandemic. Four latent subgroups were first identified among the participants based on type and comparative adoption rate of their coping strategies, namely the emotional coping group, the inactive coping group, the support-seeking and positive coping group, and the independent and positive coping group. The significant associations between coping strategy patterns and stigmatizing attitude and cyberbullying behaviors were reported, respectively. The two were most likely to happen among the participants using emotional coping while the least likely among the independent and positive coping group. This study provides empirical supports for combating the secondary disasters of the pandemic, namely stigma and cyberbullying, by identifying the role of emotional and positive coping strategies.

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“…Under the epidemic, the community intervention problems exposed in common include: The measure effects differ from one community to another [ 31 ]; low trust causes public panic [ 32 ]; rural people have more difficulties in receiving social support [ 33 ]; infection risk within the community and inadequate necessities may worsen mental health [ 34 ], etc. These various problems threaten the normal operation of community and the residents.…”

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“…These various problems threaten the normal operation of community and the residents. To deal with the impacts caused by MPHEs, community needs to explore a suitable working system considering each aspect [ 32 ]. Existing researches show that community governance highlights the tendency of structural optimization in political and social systems, focusing on the expansion of its own functions and the enhancement of participatory efficiency.…”

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Community Intervention System: COVID-19 Control in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Zou

Wang

Deng

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The COVID-19 epidemic has caused giant influences on people’s life, and China’s communities play an important role in dealing with these major public health events (MPHEs). Community as the grassroots autonomous organization has various significant functions in intervening in MPHEs. The community intervention follows a system which directly influences the anti-epidemic effectiveness. To explore the mechanism, we devise a theoretical system for community intervention, mainly consisting of “organizational structure”, “functional performance” and “internal and external connections”. Questionnaire surveys, the chi-square test, the independent sample T-test, and principal component analysis are used to identify the characteristics of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region’s (Inner Mongolia) community intervention. Through the empirical research, it is verified that the community intervention in MPHEs is the combination of “the structural response of the organization”, “the performance of the community’s own function”, and “the establishment of internal and external connections”. The central Inner Mongolia delivers the best performance in community intervention compared to eastern Inner Mongolia and western Inner Mongolia. The urban communities commonly perform better than that in the agricultural and pastoral areas. The built system and findings could provide a guidance for future community to improve its intervention capability.

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“…The presence of the cyberspace era makes health communication activities easier just by utilizing social media. In the conventional era, health communication can only be done by meeting and interacting physically (Massey et al, 2021), however, since the arrival of the cyberspace era, health communication can be done through social media (Yang & Huang, 2021). Health communication according to Healty People 2010, is defined as the art of disseminating information, persuading, as well as providing motivation individually or in groups related to issues about health to improve the quality of life and health (Yuen, 2022).…”

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“…Messages in health communication include information related to the world of health or improving the quality of life such as information on infectious diseases, education on new viruses, to appeals related to bacteria and so on (Yang & Huang, 2021). Meanwhile, the effect in health communication includes benchmarks for the delivery of information conveyed, it can be in the form of a response in the form of action or just understanding (Eismann et al, 2021).…”

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Health Communication Revolution Through Content: Multi-Step Flow and More Spill Over of Communication

Sari

Sugihartati²,

Wulan³

et al. 2022

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Health communication has undergone a revolution since the advent of social media, health content is no longer a tool for disseminating health information by medical or health personnel, but has become content that is easily produced by the general public. The purpose of this study is to uncover the implementation of the health revolution through Instagram content. Phenomenological research methods with content analysis, which is strengthened by data mining through Focus Group Discussions and interviews. The results showed that social media made health communication undergo a revolution. The communication process that is formed is a multi-step flow of communication (many stages), even the circulation of information forms a layer layer of stages in communication becomes irregular. This makes people experience more spill over of communication, which changes the culture of health communication in society.Keywords: The revolution of health communication, content, information sharing, social media ABSTRAKKomunikasi kesehatan telah mengalami revolusi sejak hadirnya media sosial, konten kesehatan tidak lagi menjadi alat penyebaran informasi kesehatan oleh tenaga medis atau kesehatan, tapi sudah menjadi konten yang dengan mudah diproduksi oleh masyarakat umum. Tujuan penelitian ini mengungkap implementasi revolusi kesehatan melalui konten instagram. Metode penelitian fenomenologi dengan analisis konten, yang diperkuat dengan penggalian data melalui Focus Group Discussion dan wawancara. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa media sosial membuat komunikasi kesehatan mengalami revolusi. Proses komunikasi yang terbentuk adalah multi step flow of communication (banyak tahap), bahkan peredaran informasinya membentuk layer layer tahap dalam komunikasi menjadi tidak teratur. Hal ini membuat masyarakat mengalami more spill over of communication (peluberan informasi yang berlebihan), yang merubah budaya komunikasi kesehatan di masyarakat.Kata Kunci: Revolusi komunikasi kesehatan, konten, peluberan informasi, media sosial

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Health communication and trust in institutions during the COVID-19 lockdown in China's urban communities

Cited by 18 publications

References 36 publications

Coping strategies, stigmatizing attitude, and cyberbullying among Chinese college students during the COVID-19 lockdown

Coping strategies, stigmatizing attitude, and cyberbullying among Chinese college students during the COVID-19 lockdown

Community Intervention System: COVID-19 Control in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Health Communication Revolution Through Content: Multi-Step Flow and More Spill Over of Communication

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