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Article: Uncertain news: Trust and preventive practices in respiratory infectious diseases
Title | Uncertain news: Trust and preventive practices in respiratory infectious diseases |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Health behavior Decision making Trust Epidemics Influenza |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | Hogrefe Publishing. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hogrefe.com/periodicals/european-psychologist/ |
Citation | European psychologist, 2014, v. 19 n. 1, p. 4-12 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Trust influences a range of human behaviors including health decision making. Over the past 60 years a significant industry has sprung up to influence public opinion and mobilize grassroots challenges against evidence-based threats to vested interests. Simultaneously, media reports of scientific fraud, misrepresentation, constantly changing “evidence” for health, and “hyped” predictions of disasters that were ultimately less significant amplify doubts about the reliability of scientific evidence and technology when hazards arise. This has contributed to the appearance of decay of trust in the veracity of scientific claims. Population responses during communicable disease epidemics illustrate these interacting processes that simultaneously create uncertainty and significant discomfort within communities. Research on the relative influences of formal versus informal information sources in driving protective behavior during recent influenza epidemics shows how both the uptake of everyday preventive practices such as hand hygiene, and specific health interventions, such as vaccination are affected by these processes. We review recent work on influenza-related personal preventive practices, with a particular focus on the shifting roles and utility of formal and informal sources in decision making among the public, and consider the implications within the context of prevailing levels of trust, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding health care recommendations. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/199806 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.520 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Liao, JQ | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Fielding, R | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-22T01:38:31Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-22T01:38:31Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | European psychologist, 2014, v. 19 n. 1, p. 4-12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1016-9040 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/199806 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Trust influences a range of human behaviors including health decision making. Over the past 60 years a significant industry has sprung up to influence public opinion and mobilize grassroots challenges against evidence-based threats to vested interests. Simultaneously, media reports of scientific fraud, misrepresentation, constantly changing “evidence” for health, and “hyped” predictions of disasters that were ultimately less significant amplify doubts about the reliability of scientific evidence and technology when hazards arise. This has contributed to the appearance of decay of trust in the veracity of scientific claims. Population responses during communicable disease epidemics illustrate these interacting processes that simultaneously create uncertainty and significant discomfort within communities. Research on the relative influences of formal versus informal information sources in driving protective behavior during recent influenza epidemics shows how both the uptake of everyday preventive practices such as hand hygiene, and specific health interventions, such as vaccination are affected by these processes. We review recent work on influenza-related personal preventive practices, with a particular focus on the shifting roles and utility of formal and informal sources in decision making among the public, and consider the implications within the context of prevailing levels of trust, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding health care recommendations. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Hogrefe Publishing. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hogrefe.com/periodicals/european-psychologist/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | European psychologist | en_US |
dc.rights | This article does not exactly replicate the final version published in the journal European psychologist. It is not a copy of the original published article and is not suitable for citation. | - |
dc.subject | Health behavior | - |
dc.subject | Decision making | - |
dc.subject | Trust | - |
dc.subject | Epidemics | - |
dc.subject | Influenza | - |
dc.title | Uncertain news: Trust and preventive practices in respiratory infectious diseases | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Liao, JQ: qyliao11@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Fielding, R: fielding@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Fielding, R=rp00339 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1027/1016-9040/a000168 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84897822576 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 231085 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 19 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 4 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000332712900002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1016-9040 | - |