Altruism in preventive health behavior: At-scale evidence from the HIV/AIDS pandemic

Wilson, Nicholas

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2018.05.004

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“…Psychological wellbeing involves the belief in self-development, whereby happiness is based on personal growth and becoming a better person [ 43 , 44 , 45 ]. From the perspective of public health policy, preventive behaviors for infectious diseases not only help reduce the chance of infection in oneself, but also create benefits of reducing the risk of infection in others; thus, the adoption of preventive behaviors can satisfy both personal and public interests [ 53 , 54 ]. In other words, the adoption of preventive behaviors can help individuals make contributions to defending community infection, as well as to their needs to become a better person.…”

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) toward COVID-19 Pandemic among the Public in Taiwan: A Cross-Sectional Study

Luo

Chen

Yang

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Purpose: Knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) models are often used by researchers in the field of public health to explore people’s healthy behaviors. Therefore, this study mainly explored the relationships among participants’ sociodemographic status, COVID-19 knowledge, affective attitudes, and preventive behaviors. Method: This study adopted an online survey, involving a total of 136 males and 204 females, and used a cross-sectional study to investigate the relationships between variables including gender, age, COVID-19 knowledge, positive affective attitudes (emotional wellbeing, psychological wellbeing, and social wellbeing), negative affective attitudes (negative self-perception and negative perceptions of life), and preventive behaviors (hygiene habits, reducing public activities, and helping others to prevent the epidemic). Results: The majority of participants in the study were knowledgeable about COVID-19. The mean COVID-19 knowledge score was 12.86 (SD = 1.34, range: 7–15 with a full score of 15), indicating a high level of knowledge. However, the key to decide whether participants adopt COVID-19 preventive behaviors was mainly their affective attitudes, especially positive affective attitudes (β = 0.18–0.25, p< 0.01), rather than COVID-19 disease knowledge (β = −0.01–0.08, p > 0.05). In addition, the sociodemographic status of the participants revealed obvious differences in the preventive behaviors; females had better preventive behaviors than males such as cooperating with the epidemic prevention hygiene habits (t = −5.08, p< 0.01), reducing public activities (t = −3.00, p< 0.01), and helping others to prevent the epidemic (t = −1.97, p< 0.05), while the older participants were more inclined to adopt preventive behaviors including epidemic prevention hygiene habits (β = 0.18, p = 0.001, R2 = 0.03), reducing public activities (β = 0.35, p< 0.001, R2 = 0.13), and helping others to prevent the epidemic (β = 0.27, p< 0.001, R2 = 0.07). Conclusions: Having adequate COVID-19 knowledge was not linked to higher involvement in precautionary behaviors. Attitudes toward COVID-19 may play a more critical function in prompting individuals to undertake preventive behaviors, and different positive affective attitudes had different predictive relationships with preventive behaviors.

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) toward COVID-19 Pandemic among the Public in Taiwan: A Cross-Sectional Study

Luo

Chen

Yang

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…Finally, the third strategy for prosocial behavior in a pandemic is the “self-care strategy,” which manifests itself in the form of preventive or health-saving behavior (Wilson, 2018 ). The inextricable link between caring for others and self-care is evidenced by research on health-saving behaviors that consider self-care as an activity of individuals, families, and communities undertaken to promote health, prevent disease and restore health.…”

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Prosocial Orientation of Russians During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Caring for Others and Yourself

Kislyakov

Shmeleva

2021

Front. Psychol.

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To mitigate the potentially devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vital to identify psychosocial and moral resources. The care, preservation, protection, and well-being of social communities are attributes of prosocial behavior that can be such a resource. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of prosocial orientation of Russian youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to identify strategies for prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample consisted of 447 people. The study was conducted in May 2020 in the form of an online survey of subjects using Google Forms (“Moral Foundations Questionnaire method” and “Portrait Values Questionnaire”). The research made it possible to establish that Russians were dominated by norms of care, fairness, purity; values of benevolence-universalism, security, and self-direction. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the prosocial orientation of Russians may manifest itself in the following behavioral strategies: proactive prosocial strategy of “caring for others” (true altruism, expressed in forms of volunteering, helping a stranger, and charity despite the risk of contracting a coronavirus infection); egoistic strategy of prosocial behavior “self-care through caring for others” (volunteering based on self-development; helping a stranger to improve your own psychological well-being); conventional prosocial strategy “self-care” (self-isolation and preventive behavior). In the long run, it is necessary to identify personal and environmental resources that allowed people to effectively implement a prosocial self-isolation strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as various forms of volunteerism.

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“…These pressures can lead to LDs if not mitigated through timely PHB adoption. Enjoyment of competition, fear of competition (Keresztes et al, 2015), tactile sensitivity (Hunt et al, 2017), masculinity belief (self‐presentation, self‐reliance, risk‐taking) (Christy et al, 2017), altruism (Wilson, 2018), role strain and role compartmentalization (Quah, 2020), emotionality (Fernández‐Abascal & Martín‐Díaz, 2015; Keren et al, 2021; Otterbring et al, 2021); intolerance of uncertainty and psychological distress (O'Brien et al, 2021) were factors that caught the attention of researchers in the last decade. Trust (Bayram & Shields, 2021), insurance expansion (De, 2021), anxiety (Suanrueang et al, 2022), perceived susceptibility and personal identity (Shahnawaz et al, 2023), the meaning of life, health locus of control (Nie et al, 2022), personality traits like agreeableness and conscientiousness (Otterbring & Festila, 2022), self‐perceptions (Ayalon & Cohn‐Schwartz, 2022), time patterns (Bíró et al, 2022), fatalism (Dallo & Kindratt, 2015; Hunter et al, 2007; Sanders Thompson et al, 2009; Silberbogen et al, 2014), uncertainty discrepancy (Crowley et al, 2021; Griffin & Dunwoody, 2000; Krieger et al, 2013; Niu et al, 2022; Yoo et al, 2018), worry, regret, environmental and psychosocial characteristics (Chapman & Coups, 2006; Gerend & Shepherd, 2007; Han et al, 2014; J. Liu et al, 2020; Orbell & Kyriakaki, 2008; Seiter & Brophy, 2020; Son et al, 2017) are also studied to understand PHB.…”

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Preventive healthcare behavior: A hybrid systematic literature review (1998–2023)

De,

Sondhi,

Bhattacharjee

et al. 2023

Int J Consumer Studies

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Preventive healthcare behavior (PHB) refers to actions taken by consumers to avert possible incidences of lifestyle diseases. Over the years, diverse approaches have been used to comprehend the complex nature of PHB. This paper follows a three‐step process to examine work done in the PHB domain. At the outset, past literature was examined. This review included PHB models and frameworks, followed by a root‐cause analysis to identify factors that impacted PHB adoption. A systematic literature review (SLR) using a domain‐based hybrid review approach was the study's third and most crucial part. The SPAR‐4‐SLR (scientific procedures and rationales for systematic literature reviews) protocol was used to conduct the hybrid review, involving two separate review studies. In the first study, a bibliometric analysis was carried out, wherein a trend analysis was conducted on an initial pool of 1011 primary peer‐reviewed publications (1998–2023). The trend analysis was followed by a co‐citation network analysis of 39,608 secondary articles, which validated the importance of primary articles as indicated by the co‐citations in these secondary articles. Further, a purification process based on reliability, validity, and replicability criteria resulted in a final pool of 190 relevant articles. These articles were subjected to a thematic analysis. Next, a framework‐based review based on the theories, contexts, characteristics, and methods (TCCM) framework was conducted on the 190 articles. This step validated the primary study findings. Additionally, it examined and reported the underlying theories, context (country level), characteristics, and methods adopted by previous PHB studies. This analysis helps in indicating the future research agenda regarding PHB. Furthermore, the inferences drawn from the two studies were used to propose a conceptual framework for understanding consumers' PHB decisions based on the antecedents, decisions, and outcomes (ADO) framework. The framework posits that specific personal, demographic, cultural, social and socioeconomic factors are precursors to PHB adoption. This PHB adoption, in turn, has positive outcomes such as enhanced quality of life, consumer wellbeing, health promotion, health behavior change, and planning. The comprehensive review and proposed framework will significantly help advance knowledge about PHB. Apart from contributing to the academic literature, learnings from this study hold value for practitioners at the global level for designing actionable strategies for preventive healthcare products and services.

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Altruism in preventive health behavior: At-scale evidence from the HIV/AIDS pandemic

Cited by 11 publications

References 73 publications

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) toward COVID-19 Pandemic among the Public in Taiwan: A Cross-Sectional Study

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) toward COVID-19 Pandemic among the Public in Taiwan: A Cross-Sectional Study

Prosocial Orientation of Russians During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Caring for Others and Yourself

Preventive healthcare behavior: A hybrid systematic literature review (1998–2023)

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