Lay people and experts’ risk perception of pharmaceuticals in the environment in Southwestern Europe

Luís, Silvia; Lima, Maria Luísa; Poggio, Lucía; Aragonés, Juan Ignacio; Courtier, Audrey; Roig, Benoît; Blanchard, Carole

doi:10.1016/j.yrtph.2020.104783

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“…Briefly, in the psychometric approach, individuals are requested to rate their perception of various risks and hazards based on several common risk characteristics identified in previous studies [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 ]. Subsequently, a principal component analysis (PCA) was used to reduce the number of proposed characteristics into two main dimensions or factors, frequently identified and named as “dreaded” and “unknown risks.” The former refers to the extent to which a threat is perceived as being dreadful, uncontrollable, and involuntary, with a catastrophic potential and fatal consequences; however, the latter entails the extent to which an event or hazard is believed to be unobservable, unknown to individuals, unfamiliar, new, and has delayed consequences [ 15 , 17 ].…”

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This study aims to assess workers’ perception of occupational and environmental risks and hazards using the psychometric paradigm. For this purpose, data were collected using survey questionnaires from 360 mineworkers recruited from mineral and sand mines. Respondents were asked to evaluate eight occupational and environmental risks and hazards on nine commonly used risk characteristics. The principal component analysis revealed that two components, “Dreaded” and “Unknown”, explained 73% percent of the total variance in workers’ risk perception. The results also showed that the risk of developing an occupational disease was perceived as the most dreaded and unknown type of risk, while landslide, occupational noise, and vibration exposure were the least familiar to the respondents. A practical implication of this research is that the results may offer an insight into the employees’ perceptions of the hazards and risks associated with their working environment. This could help risk management develop and implement effective risk management and communications strategies.

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“…Many prior studies have identified the aforementioned two main dimensions [ 22 ]. However, other research, such as Bronfman et al [ 20 ], identified four dimensions of risk and labeled them as catastrophic potential, knowledge, involuntariness, and social and personal exposure.…”

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“…In this direction, actions are required to reduce the release of these compounds using new technological solutions for at-source treatment as recently proposed [ 30 ]. Other initiatives include social, governmental, medical and analytical actuations to minimize the presence of pharmaceuticals in the environment [ 31 ] so that risk perception regarding pharmaceutical contamination can be contained [ 32 ].…”

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Pharmaceutical Residues in Senior Residences Wastewaters: High Loads, Emerging Risks

2021

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Senior residences are health-care facilities that are socially-accepted for the assistance of elderly people. Since the elderly account for the foremost pharmaceutical-consuming age-group, senior residences become a hot-spot for pharmaceuticals discharge to the sewage grid. The objectives of the present study were to identify the bioactive pharmaceuticals in sewage waters from senior residences and to propose an on-site monitoring strategy for their control. In this study, we have studied the presence of 43 pharmaceuticals highly consumed by the elderly population in six senior residences located in Spain, France and Portugal. Wastewater was sampled directly from the water-chest in each residence during different times of the day throughout one week. Main compounds detected at the high µg L−1 level were analgesic and antipyretic drugs such as acetylsalicylic acid, paracetamol, ibuprofen; antibiotics such as amoxicillin and sulfamethoxazole; compounds for the treatment of neuropathies as gabapentin, trazodone and valsartan; pharmaceuticals for the treatment of diabetes (vildagliptin) and anticancer drugs. The daily loads discharged were estimated and their fate was evaluated. The final objective of this study is to highlight the need to implement at-source waste water treatment procedures in senior residences, which have been identified as a point source pollution of pharmaceuticals.

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“…Termed ‘dread’ and ‘unknown’, the former comprises attributes such as ‘fear’ and ‘voluntariness’, while the latter is associated with ‘newness’ and unknown or delayed impacts. This two-dimensional characterization of lay risk perception has held across topics ranging from food hazards [ 16 ] to pharmaceuticals [ 17 ], as well as across cultures [ 18 ] and time [ 19 ]. The psychometric paradigm was used in the present exploratory study to investigate perceptions of risk across zoonoses among the public; namely do zoonotic risk perceptions conform to the previously documented dimensions of ‘dread’ and ‘unknown’?…”

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Impact of disease characteristics and knowledge on public risk perception of zoonoses

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Zoonoses represent a global public health threat. Understanding lay perceptions of risk associated with these diseases can better inform proportionate policy interventions that mitigate their current and future impacts. While individual zoonoses (e.g. bovine spongiform encephalopathy) have received scientific and public attention, we know little about how multiple zoonotic diseases vary relative to each other in lay risk perceptions. To this end, we examined public perceptions of 11 zoonoses across 12 qualitative attributes of risk among the UK public ( n = 727, volunteer sample), using an online survey. We found that attribute ratings were predominantly explained via two basic dimensions of risk related to public knowledge and dread. We also show that, despite participants reporting low familiarity with most of the diseases presented, zoonoses were perceived as essentially avoidable. These findings imply that infection is viewed as dependent upon actions under personal control which has significant implications for policy development.

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Lay people and experts’ risk perception of pharmaceuticals in the environment in Southwestern Europe

Cited by 13 publications

References 23 publications

Perception of Occupational and Environmental Risks and Hazards among Mineworkers: A Psychometric Paradigm Approach

Perception of Occupational and Environmental Risks and Hazards among Mineworkers: A Psychometric Paradigm Approach

Pharmaceutical Residues in Senior Residences Wastewaters: High Loads, Emerging Risks

Impact of disease characteristics and knowledge on public risk perception of zoonoses

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