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Source of Information on Intentions to Adopt Protective Behaviours During COVID-19 in China
Introduction: COVID-19 spread across China and other countries in a matter of weeks. Yet, it is uncertain how people have responded to protective behaviours in this pandemic. This study aims to evaluate how trust in different types of information sources influences the intention to adopt protective...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9082741/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35506690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00469580221090411 |
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description | Introduction: COVID-19 spread across China and other countries in a matter of weeks. Yet, it is uncertain how people have responded to protective behaviours in this pandemic. This study aims to evaluate how trust in different types of information sources influences the intention to adopt protective behaviours. Methods: In total, 122 Chinese completed a survey on Qualtrics in March 2021. Data on demographic information, protective behaviours, trust in formal information, trust in informal information, perceived risk, worry and social desirability were collected. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to identify associations between these variables. Results: Trust in formal information was significantly associated with perceived risk (β = −.18) and significantly and positively associated with worry (β = .28). Trust in informal information was significantly and positively associated with perceived risk (β = .57). Subsequently, perceived risk was significantly associated with social distancing (β = −.17), and worry was significantly and positively associated with mask wearing (β = .25) and significantly associated with hand washing (β = −.27). Trust in formal information was significantly and positively associated with hand washing (β = .26) while trust in informal information was significantly and positively associated with social distancing and hand washing (β = .26). Perceived risk was significantly and positively associated with worry (β = .32). Conclusion: People who trust in informal information from social media and interpersonal communication would be more likely to adopt mask wearing and hand washing protective behaviours. People who trust in formal information from government-agency source would have a lower perceived risk of COVID-19 and are less likely to adopt social distancing, but people who trust in formal information have a greater worry about contracting COVID-19 and are more likely to wear masks. |
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spelling | pubmed-90827412022-05-10 Source of Information on Intentions to Adopt Protective Behaviours During COVID-19 in China Yu, Jiadong Gorman, Bernard S. Springer, Carolyn M. Inquiry Original Research Introduction: COVID-19 spread across China and other countries in a matter of weeks. Yet, it is uncertain how people have responded to protective behaviours in this pandemic. This study aims to evaluate how trust in different types of information sources influences the intention to adopt protective behaviours. Methods: In total, 122 Chinese completed a survey on Qualtrics in March 2021. Data on demographic information, protective behaviours, trust in formal information, trust in informal information, perceived risk, worry and social desirability were collected. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to identify associations between these variables. Results: Trust in formal information was significantly associated with perceived risk (β = −.18) and significantly and positively associated with worry (β = .28). Trust in informal information was significantly and positively associated with perceived risk (β = .57). Subsequently, perceived risk was significantly associated with social distancing (β = −.17), and worry was significantly and positively associated with mask wearing (β = .25) and significantly associated with hand washing (β = −.27). Trust in formal information was significantly and positively associated with hand washing (β = .26) while trust in informal information was significantly and positively associated with social distancing and hand washing (β = .26). Perceived risk was significantly and positively associated with worry (β = .32). Conclusion: People who trust in informal information from social media and interpersonal communication would be more likely to adopt mask wearing and hand washing protective behaviours. People who trust in formal information from government-agency source would have a lower perceived risk of COVID-19 and are less likely to adopt social distancing, but people who trust in formal information have a greater worry about contracting COVID-19 and are more likely to wear masks. SAGE Publications 2022-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9082741/ /pubmed/35506690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00469580221090411 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 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 pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage) |
spellingShingle | Original Research Yu, Jiadong Gorman, Bernard S. Springer, Carolyn M. Source of Information on Intentions to Adopt Protective Behaviours During COVID-19 in China |
title | Source of Information on Intentions to Adopt Protective Behaviours During COVID-19 in China |
title_full | Source of Information on Intentions to Adopt Protective Behaviours During COVID-19 in China |
title_fullStr | Source of Information on Intentions to Adopt Protective Behaviours During COVID-19 in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Source of Information on Intentions to Adopt Protective Behaviours During COVID-19 in China |
title_short | Source of Information on Intentions to Adopt Protective Behaviours During COVID-19 in China |
title_sort | source of information on intentions to adopt protective behaviours during covid-19 in china |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9082741/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35506690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00469580221090411 |
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