COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors and its Related Beliefs among Health Workers: The Role of Threat and Coping Appraisals

Abstract

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Fear and COVID-19 Protective Behaviors among High School Students in Hamadan, Iran; Application of an Extended Parallel Process Model

“…These interventions should include providing health motivational messages, such as fear-containing messages to increase perceived sensitivity and intensity, and strategies for performance enhancement to improve self-efficacy and response efficiency. The same as most studies [14,16,29] , our results show that the EPPM efficiency dimension has a more positive effect on doing recommended health behaviors than the threat dimension. In such epidemics, therefore, it seems that more emphasis should be placed on the efficiency dimension to perform the intervention and provide health messages.…”

“…The data collection instrument included a questionnaire consisting of two general sections of demographics and EPPM structures. The EPPM questionnaire was designed and constructed based on the previous studies [14][15][16][17][18] . Demographic variables included in the questionnaire were grade, gender, parental education, and parental occupation (6 questions).…”

“…Theories that make predictions involving how people respond to fear messaging are particularly relevant to COVID-19 prevention because governments and media often employ these tactics hoping to keep their citizens from engaging in unsafe behaviors [12] . Studies have shown that EPPM can help to predict when and why people will follow COVID-19 prevention recommendations [13][14][15][16] . The Extended Parallel Processing Model (EPPM) is one of the best models that predict the recommended health (protective) behaviors against health hazards through the analysis of perceived threat and perceived effectiveness [11] .…”

Psychological Challenges amid the Global Pandemic: the Key Role of Mental Health Literacy

“…According to the studies results, mental disorders in quarantined children are four times as many as those in non-quarantined children, which indicates more attention to children's mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic [1] . Health workers are also at high risk of COVID-19, and preventive behaviors play an important role in reducing this infection's incidence and deaths [4] . In this situation, identifying people prone to psychological disorders at different levels of society whose mental health may be endangered is essential to maintain these people's mental health with appropriate psychological strategies and techniques [5] .…”

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Public Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in a central of Iran

“…The mortality rate for COVID-19 is reported to be between 0.8-4.3% [6,9] . The COVID-19 pandemic is considered by many to be the greatest challenge of the century to public health and the international economy, affecting oil markets as well as national and international policies [1,10] . The greatest cost is in human life [11] .…”