Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, 35122 Padova, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 12;19(8):4649. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19084649.
Several studies have attempted to identify how people's risk perceptions differ in regard to containing COVID-19 infections. The aim of the present review was to illustrate how risk awareness towards COVID-19 predicts people's preventive behaviors and to understand which features are associated with it. For the review, 77 articles found in six different databases (, , , , , and ) were considered, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines was followed, and data synthesis was conducted using a mixed-methods approach. The results indicate that a high-risk perception towards COVID-19 predicts, in general, compliance with preventive behaviors and social distancing measures. Additionally, risk awareness was found to be associated with four other key themes: demographic factors, individual factors, geographical factors, and timing. Therefore, gaining a greater understanding of individual and cultural differences as well as how people behave could be the basis of an effective strategy for raising public risk awareness and for countering COVID-19.
已有多项研究试图确定人们在控制 COVID-19 感染方面的风险感知存在何种差异。本综述旨在阐明人们对 COVID-19 的风险意识如何预测其预防行为，并了解与之相关的特征。为此，我们对六个不同数据库（,,,, 和 ）中找到的 77 篇文章进行了综述，遵循了系统评价和荟萃分析的首选报告项目（PRISMA）指南，并使用混合方法对数据进行了综合分析。结果表明，对 COVID-19 的高风险感知通常可以预测对预防行为和社交距离措施的遵守。此外，风险意识还与其他四个关键主题相关：人口统计学因素、个体因素、地理位置因素和时间因素。因此，深入了解个人和文化差异以及人们的行为方式可能是提高公众风险意识和对抗 COVID-19 的有效策略的基础。
