Vardavas Constantine, Odani Satomi, Nikitara Katerina, El Banhawi Hania, Kyriakos Christina, Taylor Luke, Becuwe Nicholas
Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, United States.
School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
Prev Med Rep. 2020 Nov 25;21:101252. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101252. eCollection 2021 Mar.
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a threat to global health and security inciting governments with the responsibility to respond with measures that ensure the health and safety of their communities. We assessed public attitudes towards governmental actions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the G7 countries. Data were collected during 19th-21st March 2020, from 7005 Kantar's online panelists aged >16 years across the G7 countries: Canada, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. Data were post-stratified and weighted to match population distributions of the respective countries. Descriptive and multivariable analyses were conducted. Amongst the G7, Japan had the lowest level of approval of governmental response to the pandemic, rating governmental communication as good, and trusting governmental decisions (35.0%, 33.6%, and 38.0%, respectively), followed by the U.S. (52.9%, 64.6%, and 59.9%, respectively). Understanding of which measures one can personally take to help limit the spread of the coronavirus was significantly associated with approving governmental response (aOR = 2.88), rating government communication as good (aOR = 2.70) and trust in future governmental decisions (aOR = 2.73). Those who reported government/politicians and friends/family as their most trusted information source were more likely to report approval, higher rating, and/or trust toward governmental actions. Public attitudes towards governmental actions against COVID-19 varied substantially across the G7 countries and were associated with the understanding of measures and source of information that respondents most trusted. Timely and accurate communication is essential to enhance public engagement to control the COVID-19 pandemic.
新冠疫情对全球健康与安全构成威胁，促使各国政府采取措施保障民众的健康与安全。我们评估了七国集团国家民众对政府抗击新冠疫情行动的态度。数据于2020年3月19日至21日收集，来自七国集团国家（加拿大、法国、英国、德国、意大利、日本和美国）7005名年龄在16岁以上的康德利在线小组成员。数据进行了事后分层和加权处理，以匹配各国的人口分布。进行了描述性和多变量分析。在七国集团中，日本民众对政府应对疫情的认可度最低，对政府沟通的评价为良好，对政府决策的信任度分别为35.0%、33.6%和38.0%，其次是美国（分别为52.9%、64.6%和59.9%）。了解个人可采取哪些措施来帮助限制新冠病毒传播与认可政府应对措施（调整后比值比=2.88）、评价政府沟通良好（调整后比值比=2.70）以及信任政府未来决策（调整后比值比=2.73）显著相关。那些将政府/政治家和朋友/家人视为最信任信息来源的人更有可能对政府行动表示认可、给予更高评价和/或信任。七国集团国家民众对政府抗击新冠疫情行动的态度差异很大，且与对措施的了解以及受访者最信任的信息来源有关。及时准确的沟通对于增强公众参与以控制新冠疫情至关重要。
