Perceived Threat, Risk Perception, and Efficacy Beliefs Related to SARS and Other (Emerging) Infectious Diseases: Results of an International Survey

Zwart, Onno de; Veldhuijzen, Irene; Elam, Gillian; Aro, Arja R.; Abraham, Thomas; Bishop, George D.; Voeten, Hélène; Richardus, Jan Hendrik; Brug, Johannes

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“…In case of an infectious disease pandemic, the willingness and ability of the general public to adhere to recommendations regarding personal hygiene, vaccination, prophylaxis, quarantine, travel restrictions, or closing down of public buildings such as schools (WHO 2006;de Zwart et al 2009) are crucially important. Our findings indicated that there were sufficient preventive behaviors among study participants.…”

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Knowledge about the pandemic influenza A (H1N1) and willingness to accept vaccination: a cross-sectional survey

Naing

Tan

2011

J Public Health

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Aims (1) To determine undergraduate medical students' knowledge about and perceptions of influenza A (H1N1) infection, (2) to explore their willingness to be vaccinated, and (3) to identify variables that could predict the likelihood of taking the vaccination. Subject and methods A cross-sectional survey with a convenience sample of 264 medical students was performed. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire. Summary statistics, Pearson chi-square test and logistic regression were used for data analysis. Results A total of 264 undergraduate medical students were interviewed. All of them had heard of the influenza vaccine, but none had ever been vaccinated at the time of survey. Regarding mode of transmission, 38.3% had at least two misconceptions. Of them, 43% had willingness to be vaccinated. In the binary logistic model, willingness to be vaccinated was statistically significant with those who feared the resurgence of a pandemic influenza (p = 0.01), those who trusted that vaccination would be effective for prevention of a pandemic influenza (p = 0.045), and those who were worried for family (p = 0.03) and if the vaccination would be freely provided (p = 0.04). ConclusionThe findings may be helpful for decision makers and health care planners as baseline information for designing wider coverage of newly implemented vaccination programs.

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Knowledge about the pandemic influenza A (H1N1) and willingness to accept vaccination: a cross-sectional survey

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Tan

2011

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“…It has been shown that the risk perceptions for emerging infectious diseasesare high, especially when people witness disease outbreaks (8)(9)(10). During the early phases of the outbreak in Iran, CCHF was associated with a relatively high case fatality ratio (up to 20%) (11), hence it was recognized as a deadly disease.…”

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Factors Influencing Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Risk Perceptions in the General Population, Southeast Iran

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Background: Since June 1999, the majority of cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), an arboviral disease, have been reported in the southeast region of Iran. Objectives: The main objective of this study was to investigate CCHF risk perceptions and to identify the factors influencing perceived risk in this area. Patients and Methods:In this cross-sectional study, a total of 400 subjects were randomly recruited through 20 health centers in the city of Zahedan, located in the southeast of Iran. Information was collected by interviewing the respondents using a semi-structured questionnaire. Logistic regression models were used to identify factors associated with a 'high' CCHF perceived risk.Results: Approximately 70% of the respondents reported the CCHF risk to be 'high'. Factors independently associated with a 'high' CCHF perceived risk included; holding a university degree (OR=5.65, 95%CI 2.02-15.83), high school education (OR=2.70, 95%CI 1.27-5.75), having had a relative/friend diagnosed with CCHF (OR=2.94, 95% CI 1.08-7.96), a CCHF knowledge score ≥ 9 out of 20 (OR=3.37, 95% CI 1.61-7.07) and a knowledge score between 5 and 8 (OR=2.58, 95% CI 1.51-4.39). Conclusions: Our results showed that the study population perceived a high likelihood of CCHF risk. Improving public knowledge and awareness could result in a more realistic assessment of CCHF risk, hence better compliance with taking precaution measures to tackle the disease.

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“…These questions were based on evidence showing that perception of different diseases, and diseases during pandemic phases can be important for the acceptability of different health interventions [42, 43]. With respect to the latter, participants were asked to imagine themselves in the midst of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and were shown a video clip of press coverage from the time to remind them of the outbreak.…”

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Self-tests for influenza: an empirical ethics investigation

2017

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BackgroundIn this article we aim to assess the ethical desirability of self-test diagnostic kits for influenza, focusing in particular on the potential benefits and challenges posed by a new, mobile phone-based tool currently being developed by i-sense, an interdisciplinary research collaboration based (primarily) at University College London and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.MethodsOur study adopts an empirical ethics approach, supplementing an initial review into the ethical considerations posed by such technologies with qualitative data from three focus groups.ResultsOverall, we map a range of possible considerations both for and against the use of such technologies, synthesizing evidence from a range of secondary literature, as well as identifying several new considerations previously overlooked.ConclusionsWe argue that no single consideration marks these technologies as either entirely permissible or impermissible but rather tools which have the potential to incur certain costs and benefits, and that context is important in determining these. In the latter stages of the article, we explain how developers of such technologies might seek to mitigate such costs and reflect on the possible limitations of the empirical ethics method brought out during the study.Trial registrationNot applicable.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12910-017-0192-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Perceived Threat, Risk Perception, and Efficacy Beliefs Related to SARS and Other (Emerging) Infectious Diseases: Results of an International Survey

Cited by 277 publications

References 31 publications

Knowledge about the pandemic influenza A (H1N1) and willingness to accept vaccination: a cross-sectional survey

Knowledge about the pandemic influenza A (H1N1) and willingness to accept vaccination: a cross-sectional survey

Factors Influencing Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Risk Perceptions in the General Population, Southeast Iran

Self-tests for influenza: an empirical ethics investigation

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