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Citizens’ Opinion on Governmental Response to COVID-19 Outbreak: A Qualitative Study from Iran
Studying the people’s expectations of government measures to control and manage the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can help to prepare for future crises. This study aimed to investigate the opinion of the Iranian people on authorities’ management during a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8239969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34166135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00469580211024906 |
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author | Bagheri Lankarani, Kamran Honarvar, Behnam Kalateh Sadati, Ahmad Rahmanian Haghighi, Mohammad Reza |
author_facet | Bagheri Lankarani, Kamran Honarvar, Behnam Kalateh Sadati, Ahmad Rahmanian Haghighi, Mohammad Reza |
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description | Studying the people’s expectations of government measures to control and manage the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can help to prepare for future crises. This study aimed to investigate the opinion of the Iranian people on authorities’ management during a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative study was conducted on 70 Iranian citizens in Shiraz to explore their opinion about the government response to the COVID-19 outbreak in February and March 2020. Based on saturation criteria, the data was collected by 1 open-end question: “What is your attitude toward the readiness of the officials and government in this epidemic?” Thematic analysis was conducted to explore themes. At the first step of the outbreak, people had critical opinions on their authorities’ management. Four themes were studied, including trust and responsiveness, policymaking during a health crisis, economic management, and epidemic management. Although the citizens’ expectation is dynamic, our study showed that there are still high demands from citizens toward the authorities, even in a new crisis that was not perceived before. One of the best ways to respond to these demands is appropriate risk communication. |
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spelling | pubmed-82399692021-07-08 Citizens’ Opinion on Governmental Response to COVID-19 Outbreak: A Qualitative Study from Iran Bagheri Lankarani, Kamran Honarvar, Behnam Kalateh Sadati, Ahmad Rahmanian Haghighi, Mohammad Reza Inquiry Original Research Studying the people’s expectations of government measures to control and manage the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can help to prepare for future crises. This study aimed to investigate the opinion of the Iranian people on authorities’ management during a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative study was conducted on 70 Iranian citizens in Shiraz to explore their opinion about the government response to the COVID-19 outbreak in February and March 2020. Based on saturation criteria, the data was collected by 1 open-end question: “What is your attitude toward the readiness of the officials and government in this epidemic?” Thematic analysis was conducted to explore themes. At the first step of the outbreak, people had critical opinions on their authorities’ management. Four themes were studied, including trust and responsiveness, policymaking during a health crisis, economic management, and epidemic management. Although the citizens’ expectation is dynamic, our study showed that there are still high demands from citizens toward the authorities, even in a new crisis that was not perceived before. One of the best ways to respond to these demands is appropriate risk communication. SAGE Publications 2021-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8239969/ /pubmed/34166135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00469580211024906 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Bagheri Lankarani, Kamran Honarvar, Behnam Kalateh Sadati, Ahmad Rahmanian Haghighi, Mohammad Reza Citizens’ Opinion on Governmental Response to COVID-19 Outbreak: A Qualitative Study from Iran |
title | Citizens’ Opinion on Governmental Response to COVID-19 Outbreak: A Qualitative Study from Iran |
title_full | Citizens’ Opinion on Governmental Response to COVID-19 Outbreak: A Qualitative Study from Iran |
title_fullStr | Citizens’ Opinion on Governmental Response to COVID-19 Outbreak: A Qualitative Study from Iran |
title_full_unstemmed | Citizens’ Opinion on Governmental Response to COVID-19 Outbreak: A Qualitative Study from Iran |
title_short | Citizens’ Opinion on Governmental Response to COVID-19 Outbreak: A Qualitative Study from Iran |
title_sort | citizens’ opinion on governmental response to covid-19 outbreak: a qualitative study from iran |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8239969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34166135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00469580211024906 |
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