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How to inform the public about protective actions in a nuclear or radiological incident: a systematic review
Studying how the public behaves after a nuclear emergency will help to assess overall morbidity and mortality. Pre-event education might help to shape behaviour, but how best to engage people with emergency communications for low likelihood, high-impact events is unknown. We did a systematic review...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10019556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30340985 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30173-1 |
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author | Gauntlett, Louis Amlôt, Richard Rubin, G James |
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description | Studying how the public behaves after a nuclear emergency will help to assess overall morbidity and mortality. Pre-event education might help to shape behaviour, but how best to engage people with emergency communications for low likelihood, high-impact events is unknown. We did a systematic review to identify factors that predict behaviour in preparation for a nuclear incident, factors that predict behaviour in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear incident, and preferences among members of the public for information designed to educate them about which actions to take in the event of a nuclear incident. In general preparedness, behaviour was predicted by factors including perceived coping effectiveness and having children, among others, but absence of preparedness was attributed to fatalistic attitudes. Importantly, for pre-incident communications to be accepted and recommendations adhered to, the source had to be trusted and perceived to be credible. However, it is notable that family needs, such as picking up children from school, were a stronger predictor of behaviour in a nuclear emergency than communicated directives from authorities. If pre-incident education about nuclear incidents is to be used, several factors—including the source and method of communication, the content, and format of messaging—might increase public engagement with messages and promote the uptake of protective behaviours in a radiation event. |
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spelling | pubmed-100195562023-03-17 How to inform the public about protective actions in a nuclear or radiological incident: a systematic review Gauntlett, Louis Amlôt, Richard Rubin, G James Lancet Psychiatry Series Studying how the public behaves after a nuclear emergency will help to assess overall morbidity and mortality. Pre-event education might help to shape behaviour, but how best to engage people with emergency communications for low likelihood, high-impact events is unknown. We did a systematic review to identify factors that predict behaviour in preparation for a nuclear incident, factors that predict behaviour in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear incident, and preferences among members of the public for information designed to educate them about which actions to take in the event of a nuclear incident. In general preparedness, behaviour was predicted by factors including perceived coping effectiveness and having children, among others, but absence of preparedness was attributed to fatalistic attitudes. Importantly, for pre-incident communications to be accepted and recommendations adhered to, the source had to be trusted and perceived to be credible. However, it is notable that family needs, such as picking up children from school, were a stronger predictor of behaviour in a nuclear emergency than communicated directives from authorities. If pre-incident education about nuclear incidents is to be used, several factors—including the source and method of communication, the content, and format of messaging—might increase public engagement with messages and promote the uptake of protective behaviours in a radiation event. Elsevier Ltd. 2019-01 2018-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10019556/ /pubmed/30340985 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30173-1 Text en © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Series Gauntlett, Louis Amlôt, Richard Rubin, G James How to inform the public about protective actions in a nuclear or radiological incident: a systematic review |
title | How to inform the public about protective actions in a nuclear or radiological incident: a systematic review |
title_full | How to inform the public about protective actions in a nuclear or radiological incident: a systematic review |
title_fullStr | How to inform the public about protective actions in a nuclear or radiological incident: a systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | How to inform the public about protective actions in a nuclear or radiological incident: a systematic review |
title_short | How to inform the public about protective actions in a nuclear or radiological incident: a systematic review |
title_sort | how to inform the public about protective actions in a nuclear or radiological incident: a systematic review |
topic | Series |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10019556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30340985 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30173-1 |
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