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Impact of Social Support and Social Trust on Public Viral Risk Response: A COVID-19 Survey Study
Public health has been under continuous threat worldwide in recent years. This study examined the impact of social support and social trust on the activities and efficacy of the public’s risk response in the case of COVID-19. We conducted an online survey over eight days with 620 Korean adult partic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7560190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32927793 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186589 |
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description | Public health has been under continuous threat worldwide in recent years. This study examined the impact of social support and social trust on the activities and efficacy of the public’s risk response in the case of COVID-19. We conducted an online survey over eight days with 620 Korean adult participants. Data were analyzed using structural equation modelling and K-means cluster analysis. Our results showed that public support had a positive impact on response efficacy, while response efficacy had a positive impact on sanitation, distancing, and purchasing activities. In addition, social support positively moderated the impact of public and individual support on response efficacy, while response efficacy negatively moderated the impact on sanitation activities. These results suggest that, first, amid viral risk, governments should proactively supply tools and information for infection-prevention, and deliver messages that encourage and support infection-prevention activities among the public. Second, when viral risk occurs, governments, along with all other members of society, must engage in aggressive risk response measures. Third, there is a need for risk communication that further emphasizes the importance of personal sanitation activities in the face of viral risk. |
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spelling | pubmed-75601902020-10-22 Impact of Social Support and Social Trust on Public Viral Risk Response: A COVID-19 Survey Study Song, Eugene Yoo, Hyun Jung Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Public health has been under continuous threat worldwide in recent years. This study examined the impact of social support and social trust on the activities and efficacy of the public’s risk response in the case of COVID-19. We conducted an online survey over eight days with 620 Korean adult participants. Data were analyzed using structural equation modelling and K-means cluster analysis. Our results showed that public support had a positive impact on response efficacy, while response efficacy had a positive impact on sanitation, distancing, and purchasing activities. In addition, social support positively moderated the impact of public and individual support on response efficacy, while response efficacy negatively moderated the impact on sanitation activities. These results suggest that, first, amid viral risk, governments should proactively supply tools and information for infection-prevention, and deliver messages that encourage and support infection-prevention activities among the public. Second, when viral risk occurs, governments, along with all other members of society, must engage in aggressive risk response measures. Third, there is a need for risk communication that further emphasizes the importance of personal sanitation activities in the face of viral risk. MDPI 2020-09-10 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7560190/ /pubmed/32927793 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186589 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Song, Eugene Yoo, Hyun Jung Impact of Social Support and Social Trust on Public Viral Risk Response: A COVID-19 Survey Study |
title | Impact of Social Support and Social Trust on Public Viral Risk Response: A COVID-19 Survey Study |
title_full | Impact of Social Support and Social Trust on Public Viral Risk Response: A COVID-19 Survey Study |
title_fullStr | Impact of Social Support and Social Trust on Public Viral Risk Response: A COVID-19 Survey Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of Social Support and Social Trust on Public Viral Risk Response: A COVID-19 Survey Study |
title_short | Impact of Social Support and Social Trust on Public Viral Risk Response: A COVID-19 Survey Study |
title_sort | impact of social support and social trust on public viral risk response: a covid-19 survey study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7560190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32927793 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186589 |
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