Discussion of Average versus Extreme Case Severity in Pandemic Risk Communications

To investigate determinants of the public’s perceptions of disease threat, in 2015 we conducted a randomized survey experiment in the Netherlands. Adults who read a mock news article describing average +or extreme outcomes from a hypothetical influenza pandemic were more influenced by average than b...

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Autores principales: Zikmund-Fisher, Brian J., Scherer, Aaron M., Knaus, Megan, Das, Enny, Fagerlin, Angela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28322691
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2304.161600
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description To investigate determinants of the public’s perceptions of disease threat, in 2015 we conducted a randomized survey experiment in the Netherlands. Adults who read a mock news article describing average +or extreme outcomes from a hypothetical influenza pandemic were more influenced by average than by extreme case information. Presenting both types of information simultaneously appeared counterproductive.
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spelling pubmed-53674012017-04-07 Discussion of Average versus Extreme Case Severity in Pandemic Risk Communications Zikmund-Fisher, Brian J. Scherer, Aaron M. Knaus, Megan Das, Enny Fagerlin, Angela Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter To investigate determinants of the public’s perceptions of disease threat, in 2015 we conducted a randomized survey experiment in the Netherlands. Adults who read a mock news article describing average +or extreme outcomes from a hypothetical influenza pandemic were more influenced by average than by extreme case information. Presenting both types of information simultaneously appeared counterproductive. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5367401/ /pubmed/28322691 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2304.161600 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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