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Article: Community psychological and behavioural responses to coronavirus disease 2019 over one year of the pandemic in 2020 in Hong Kong
Title | Community psychological and behavioural responses to coronavirus disease 2019 over one year of the pandemic in 2020 in Hong Kong |
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Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Nature Research: Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/srep/index.html |
Citation | Scientific Reports, 2021, v. 11 n. 1, p. article no. 22480 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Monitoring community psychological and behavioural responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is important for informing policy making and risk communication to sustain public compliance with challenging precautionary behaviours and mitigating the psychological impacts. Monthly telephone-based cross-sectional surveys in January–April 2020 and then weekly surveys from May through December 2020 were conducted to monitor changes in public risk perception of COVID-19, personal efficacy in self-protection, confidence in government’s ability to control the pandemic, precautionary behaviours, perceived impact of precautionary behaviours, psychological fatigue and distress in Hong Kong, and examine their inter-relationships. While worry about contracting COVID-19 increased, personal efficacy and confidence in government declined as the community incidence of COVID-19 increased. The public maintained high compliance with most precautionary behaviours throughout but relaxed behaviours that were more challenging when disease incidence declined. Public confidence in government was persistently low throughout, of which, a lower level was associated with more psychological fatigue, lower compliance with precautionary behaviours and greater psychological distress. Perceived greater negative impact of precautionary behaviours was also associated with more psychological fatigue which in turn was associated with relaxation of precautionary behaviours. Female, younger and unemployed individuals reported greater psychological distress throughout different stages of the pandemic. Risk communication should focus on promoting confidence in self-protection and pandemic control to avoid helplessness to act when the pandemic resurges. Policy making should prioritize building public trust, enhancing support for sustaining precautionary behaviours, and helping vulnerable groups to adapt to the stress during the pandemic. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/308441 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.900 |
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dc.contributor.author | Liao, Q | - |
dc.contributor.author | Xiao, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Cheung, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ng, TW | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lam, WWT | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ni, MY | - |
dc.contributor.author | Cowling, B | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-01T07:53:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-01T07:53:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Scientific Reports, 2021, v. 11 n. 1, p. article no. 22480 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/308441 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Monitoring community psychological and behavioural responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is important for informing policy making and risk communication to sustain public compliance with challenging precautionary behaviours and mitigating the psychological impacts. Monthly telephone-based cross-sectional surveys in January–April 2020 and then weekly surveys from May through December 2020 were conducted to monitor changes in public risk perception of COVID-19, personal efficacy in self-protection, confidence in government’s ability to control the pandemic, precautionary behaviours, perceived impact of precautionary behaviours, psychological fatigue and distress in Hong Kong, and examine their inter-relationships. While worry about contracting COVID-19 increased, personal efficacy and confidence in government declined as the community incidence of COVID-19 increased. The public maintained high compliance with most precautionary behaviours throughout but relaxed behaviours that were more challenging when disease incidence declined. Public confidence in government was persistently low throughout, of which, a lower level was associated with more psychological fatigue, lower compliance with precautionary behaviours and greater psychological distress. Perceived greater negative impact of precautionary behaviours was also associated with more psychological fatigue which in turn was associated with relaxation of precautionary behaviours. Female, younger and unemployed individuals reported greater psychological distress throughout different stages of the pandemic. Risk communication should focus on promoting confidence in self-protection and pandemic control to avoid helplessness to act when the pandemic resurges. Policy making should prioritize building public trust, enhancing support for sustaining precautionary behaviours, and helping vulnerable groups to adapt to the stress during the pandemic. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Nature Research: Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/srep/index.html | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Scientific Reports | - |
dc.rights | Scientific Reports. Copyright © Nature Research: Fully open access journals. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.title | Community psychological and behavioural responses to coronavirus disease 2019 over one year of the pandemic in 2020 in Hong Kong | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Liao, Q: qyliao11@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Xiao, J: zoesiu0@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Cheung, J: ckhj@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Lam, WWT: wwtlam@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Ni, MY: nimy@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Cowling, B: bcowling@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Liao, Q=rp02100 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Lam, WWT=rp00443 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Ni, MY=rp01639 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Cowling, B=rp01326 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-021-00616-9 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 34795312 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC8602294 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85119290149 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 330603 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 11 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 22480 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 22480 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000720520100045 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |