Analysis of Risk Perceptions and Related Factors Concerning COVID-19 Epidemic in Chongqing, China
OBJECTIVE: To assess perceptions of risk and related factors concerning COVID-19 epidemic among residents in Chongqing city, China. METHODS: With convenience sampling, a web questionnaire survey was conducted among 476 residents living in Chongqing on February 13rd to 14th in 2020, when citizens jus...
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description | OBJECTIVE: To assess perceptions of risk and related factors concerning COVID-19 epidemic among residents in Chongqing city, China. METHODS: With convenience sampling, a web questionnaire survey was conducted among 476 residents living in Chongqing on February 13rd to 14th in 2020, when citizens just started to get back to work. RESULTS: Residents’ estimated perceived risks were (4.63 ± 0.57), (4.19 ± 0.76), (3.23 ± 0.91) and (2.29 ± 0.96) for the infectivity, pathogenicity, lethality and self-rated infection possibility of COVID-19, respectively. Females (OR = 4.234), people with income ≥ 2000 yuan (2000–4999 yuan: OR = 5.052, 5000–9999 yuan: OR = 4.301, ≥ 10,000 yuan: OR = 23.459), the married status (OR = 1.811), the divorced status, widows or widowers (OR = 3.038), people living with families including children (OR = 5.085) or chronic patients (OR = 2.423) had a higher perceived risk level, as well as people who used free media websites (OR = 1.756), community workers (OR = 4.064) or community information platforms (OR = 2.235) as main media information sources. The perceived risk increased by 4.9% for every one-year increase of age. People who used WeChat contacts (OR = 0.196) as the main media information source, reported a lower perceived risk. CONCLUSION: Residents reported a high level of risk perception towards COVID-19 in Chongqing and it was impacted by the population demographic characteristics. Media information sources, including community information platforms and community workers may cause the increase of public risk perceptions. |
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spelling | pubmed-73189032020-06-29 Analysis of Risk Perceptions and Related Factors Concerning COVID-19 Epidemic in Chongqing, China He, Shan Chen, Siyu Kong, Lingna Liu, Weiwei J Community Health Original Paper OBJECTIVE: To assess perceptions of risk and related factors concerning COVID-19 epidemic among residents in Chongqing city, China. METHODS: With convenience sampling, a web questionnaire survey was conducted among 476 residents living in Chongqing on February 13rd to 14th in 2020, when citizens just started to get back to work. RESULTS: Residents’ estimated perceived risks were (4.63 ± 0.57), (4.19 ± 0.76), (3.23 ± 0.91) and (2.29 ± 0.96) for the infectivity, pathogenicity, lethality and self-rated infection possibility of COVID-19, respectively. Females (OR = 4.234), people with income ≥ 2000 yuan (2000–4999 yuan: OR = 5.052, 5000–9999 yuan: OR = 4.301, ≥ 10,000 yuan: OR = 23.459), the married status (OR = 1.811), the divorced status, widows or widowers (OR = 3.038), people living with families including children (OR = 5.085) or chronic patients (OR = 2.423) had a higher perceived risk level, as well as people who used free media websites (OR = 1.756), community workers (OR = 4.064) or community information platforms (OR = 2.235) as main media information sources. The perceived risk increased by 4.9% for every one-year increase of age. People who used WeChat contacts (OR = 0.196) as the main media information source, reported a lower perceived risk. CONCLUSION: Residents reported a high level of risk perception towards COVID-19 in Chongqing and it was impacted by the population demographic characteristics. Media information sources, including community information platforms and community workers may cause the increase of public risk perceptions. Springer US 2020-06-26 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7318903/ /pubmed/32592160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10900-020-00870-4 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper He, Shan Chen, Siyu Kong, Lingna Liu, Weiwei Analysis of Risk Perceptions and Related Factors Concerning COVID-19 Epidemic in Chongqing, China |
title | Analysis of Risk Perceptions and Related Factors Concerning COVID-19 Epidemic in Chongqing, China |
title_full | Analysis of Risk Perceptions and Related Factors Concerning COVID-19 Epidemic in Chongqing, China |
title_fullStr | Analysis of Risk Perceptions and Related Factors Concerning COVID-19 Epidemic in Chongqing, China |
title_full_unstemmed | Analysis of Risk Perceptions and Related Factors Concerning COVID-19 Epidemic in Chongqing, China |
title_short | Analysis of Risk Perceptions and Related Factors Concerning COVID-19 Epidemic in Chongqing, China |
title_sort | analysis of risk perceptions and related factors concerning covid-19 epidemic in chongqing, china |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7318903/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32592160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10900-020-00870-4 |
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