UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia.
Health Commun. 2023 Jun;38(7):1305-1317. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2021.2006394. Epub 2021 Dec 7.
Through an online, nationally representative survey ( = 1,164), this study examines how individuals perceive and cope with infectious disease outbreaks. Findings inform risk and crisis communication strategies for health organizations. This study explored how individuals' threat appraisals (perceived controllability, perceived predictability, and perceived responsibility) and their (i.e., information seeking) and (i.e., protective actions) differ by infectious disease threat (IDT) type (i.e. airborne, bloodborne, foodborne, sexually-transmitted, waterborne, or zoonotic/vectorborne) in epidemic situations. Findings revealed that IDT types varied significantly based on individuals' appraisals of predictability, controllability, and responsibility for different disease types. Across all disease types, predictability was the most impactful factor related to participants' information seeking and planned protective action taking.
通过一项在线的全国代表性调查（n=1164），本研究考察了个人如何感知和应对传染病疫情。研究结果为卫生组织的风险和危机沟通策略提供了信息。本研究探讨了个体的威胁评估（感知可控性、感知可预测性和感知责任）以及他们的（即信息寻求）和（即保护行为）如何因传染病威胁（IDT）类型（即空气传播、血液传播、食源传播、性传播、水传播或人畜共患/媒介传播）而异在流行情况下。研究结果表明，IDT 类型在很大程度上取决于个人对不同疾病类型的可预测性、可控性和责任感的评估。在所有疾病类型中，可预测性是与参与者信息寻求和计划保护行为相关的最具影响力的因素。
