College of Communication, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
Department of Communication, University of Macau, Macau, China.
Front Public Health. 2021 Aug 23;9:684683. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.684683. eCollection 2021.
A growing body of scientific studies has been published to inform responses to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and some have claimed that cigarette smoking has a beneficial or mixed effect on the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. The presentation of such findings, unfortunately, has created an infodemic. This study integrated the theory of planned behavior and the health belief model and incorporated findings on addiction from the medical literature to predict cessation intention and support for tobacco control measures in the context of the COVID-19 infodemic. The study found that cessation intention partially mediated the effect of perceived severity and fully mediated the effects of perceived benefits, self-efficacy, and addiction on support for control measures. In addition, a positively-valenced message of the effect of smoking on the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 vs. a mixedly-valenced message was significant in predicting cessation intention, and the positively-valenced message of smoking indirectly predicted support for tobacco control measures. Perceived susceptibility, barriers, and subjective norms, however, exerted neither direct nor indirect effects on the two outcome variables.
越来越多的科学研究已经发表，以提供应对当前冠状病毒大流行的信息，并且有人声称吸烟对 COVID-19 的预防和治疗有有益或混合作用。不幸的是，这些发现的呈现造成了信息疫情。本研究整合了计划行为理论和健康信念模型，并纳入了医学文献中关于成瘾的发现，以预测在 COVID-19 信息疫情背景下的戒烟意愿和对烟草控制措施的支持。研究发现，戒烟意愿部分中介了感知严重性的影响，完全中介了感知益处、自我效能和成瘾对控制措施支持的影响。此外，与混合效价信息相比，关于吸烟对 COVID-19 预防和治疗影响的正面效价信息在预测戒烟意愿方面具有显著意义，并且吸烟的正面效价信息间接预测了对烟草控制措施的支持。然而，感知易感性、障碍和主观规范既没有对两个结果变量产生直接影响，也没有产生间接影响。
