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Personality and city culture predict attitudes and practices toward mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases in South Texas

Personality is known to affect compliance with health-protective behaviors and it has been shown that effective public health messaging can be informed by an understanding of that relationship. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the role personality might play in implementing personal protective measures (P...

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Autores principales: Bohmann, Amy K., Martinez-Berman, Lisset, Senger, Amy R., Wise de Valdez, Megan R.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9676665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36419988
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.919780
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author Bohmann, Amy K.
Martinez-Berman, Lisset
Senger, Amy R.
Wise de Valdez, Megan R.
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description Personality is known to affect compliance with health-protective behaviors and it has been shown that effective public health messaging can be informed by an understanding of that relationship. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the role personality might play in implementing personal protective measures (PPMs) that can prevent mosquito-borne diseases. This is the first mosquito-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) study to incorporate a measure of personality using the Big Five: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. KAP studies in Gulf-coast and Mexican border-states in the U.S. are few. Ours is only the second KAP study to take place in Texas despite known local transmission and established mosquito populations capable of transmitting dengue, zika, chikungunya, and West Nile viruses. The KAP survey was administered in three neighborhoods in San Antonio, a large, Hispanic-majority, urban city that is segregated economically and ecologically. We found that openness, agreeableness, and extraversion predicted certain attitudes and PPMs, and that KAP and personality measures did not differ along ethnic or neighborhood lines. Perceptions toward the city's role in mosquito control and education was an important factor in predicting PPMs, suggesting that city culture (attitudes common throughout the city as opposed to attitudes differing by ethnicity and neighborhood) may be most salient in developing public health messaging in San Antonio.
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spelling pubmed-96766652022-11-22 Personality and city culture predict attitudes and practices toward mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases in South Texas Bohmann, Amy K. Martinez-Berman, Lisset Senger, Amy R. Wise de Valdez, Megan R. Front Public Health Public Health Personality is known to affect compliance with health-protective behaviors and it has been shown that effective public health messaging can be informed by an understanding of that relationship. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the role personality might play in implementing personal protective measures (PPMs) that can prevent mosquito-borne diseases. This is the first mosquito-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) study to incorporate a measure of personality using the Big Five: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. KAP studies in Gulf-coast and Mexican border-states in the U.S. are few. Ours is only the second KAP study to take place in Texas despite known local transmission and established mosquito populations capable of transmitting dengue, zika, chikungunya, and West Nile viruses. The KAP survey was administered in three neighborhoods in San Antonio, a large, Hispanic-majority, urban city that is segregated economically and ecologically. We found that openness, agreeableness, and extraversion predicted certain attitudes and PPMs, and that KAP and personality measures did not differ along ethnic or neighborhood lines. Perceptions toward the city's role in mosquito control and education was an important factor in predicting PPMs, suggesting that city culture (attitudes common throughout the city as opposed to attitudes differing by ethnicity and neighborhood) may be most salient in developing public health messaging in San Antonio. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9676665/ /pubmed/36419988 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.919780 Text en Copyright © 2022 Bohmann, Martinez-Berman, Senger and Wise de Valdez. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Bohmann, Amy K.
Martinez-Berman, Lisset
Senger, Amy R.
Wise de Valdez, Megan R.
Personality and city culture predict attitudes and practices toward mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases in South Texas
title Personality and city culture predict attitudes and practices toward mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases in South Texas
title_full Personality and city culture predict attitudes and practices toward mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases in South Texas
title_fullStr Personality and city culture predict attitudes and practices toward mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases in South Texas
title_full_unstemmed Personality and city culture predict attitudes and practices toward mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases in South Texas
title_short Personality and city culture predict attitudes and practices toward mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases in South Texas
title_sort personality and city culture predict attitudes and practices toward mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases in south texas
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9676665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36419988
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.919780
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