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

Shirahmadi, Samane; Bashirian, Saeed; Barati, Majid; Jenabi, Ensieh; Haghighi, Mohammad; Shamsaei, Farshid; Heidari-moghadam, Rashid; Khazaei, Salman; Zareian, Sepideh; Poordavood, Mohammad; Nankali, Yaser; Bahiraee, Nematollah; Farzian, Shahnaz; Asgari, Aliakbar

doi:10.52547/jech.8.3.165

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“…Also may be contributed to lack of knowledge regarding preventive and safety measures, as more than half of the students had poor knowledge concerning Omicron. This is consistent with the findings of Shirahmadi et al, (2022) & Chen et al, (2020. They reported that performing protective behaviors among high school students was much lower than expected.…”

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Knowledge, Anxiety, and Protective Behaviors Regarding Omicron among Secondary School Students

Amin

Elzohairy²,

Elbialy³

2022

International Egyptian Journal of Nursing Sciences and Research

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Background: COVID-19 Omicron variant is spreading in alarming way universally. Thus, assessing knowledge, anxiety and preventive behaviors of every individual is essential in handling the outbreak effectively. Aim of the study: To assess knowledge, level of anxiety and protective behaviors regarding Omicron among secondary school students. Design: A descriptive cross sectional study design was utilized. Setting: This study was conducted in five secondary schools allocated in five educational directorates in El-Beheira governorate, Egypt. Subjects: Convenient sample of five hundred students were selected from the previous settings. Tools for data collection: Two tools were used. Tool I: Structured self-administered questionnaire including two parts. Tool II: COVID-19 Induced Anxiety and Protective Behaviors during COVID-19 Outbreak Scale. Results: More than half of the students had poor knowledge and low protective behaviors towards omicron (52.6% and 52.4% respectively). Additionally, more than half of the studied sample reported high level of anxiety regarding omicron. Moreover, age from 14 to less than 16 years, being female, living in rural area, their parents not working, having no previous infection of COVID-19, having a family member infected with COVID-19, poor knowledge concerning omicron and displaying high protective behaviors toward COVID-19 are associated with anxiety. Conclusion: It can be concluded that, the highest percentage of the students reported poor knowledge, high anxiety level and displayed low protective behaviors toward Omicron. Recommendations: Conducting digital based and traditional educational interventions to raise the student's awareness concerning omicron and reduce their anxiety.

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confidence: 90%

Knowledge, Anxiety, and Protective Behaviors Regarding Omicron among Secondary School Students

Amin

Elzohairy²,

Elbialy³

2022

International Egyptian Journal of Nursing Sciences and Research

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“…This finding of the present study was inconsistent with such similar previous studies. For example, Shirahmadi et al concluded that the dominance of perceived threat weight over perceived efficacy may lead to increasing practice of recommended COVID-19 preventive behaviors 13 . Saadat et al also found that risk perception was the only significant predictive variable in terms of performing COVID-19 preventive behaviors 51 .…”

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“…The researchers suggested that effectively controlling the COVID-19 pandemic requires targeted interventions that take into account people's risk perception 12 . It is worth noting that individuals in the danger control process are expected to have a higher rate of engaging in health behaviors than those in the fear control process 13 . These results highlight how differences in emotional experiences of the pandemic can inform intervention strategies 14 .…”

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Determinants of COVID-19 preventive health behaviors in Iranian adults based on extended parallel process model

Kordi-Kalaki,

Dehdari,

Abolghasemi

2023

Sci Rep

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Performing preventive behaviors by individuals has been recognized as one of the important strategies for the prevention and control of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study aimed to assess the determinants of adopting preventive behaviors of COVID-19 in a sample of Iranian adults based on Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) variables. In this cross-sectional study, 300 adults from Tehran, Iran were selected using cluster sampling method from five areas of the city: north, south, west, east, and center. The participants completed a study instrument developed to assess demographic information and EPPM variables. Finally, the data were analyzed using SPSS software. The mean age of the participants was 40.11 (± 15.158) years. The results showed that 88.3% (n = 265) of the participants were in the process of danger control. Perceived self-efficacy, attitude, response efficiency, behavioral intention, and the number of hours of activity outside home were determinants of performing COVID-19 preventive behaviors among the participants. These predictors might be used to develop theory-based educational efforts based on EPPM variables due to encouraging people to adopt COVID-19 preventive behaviors. Our results suggest that because many participants were engaged in danger control, health professionals should focus on increasing perceived efficacy.

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“…The Tobit regression model has been used to understand the effect of the social network through social support on consumers' PHB (Southwell et al, 2010). A multi‐stage cluster sampling method has been utilized to understand the relationship between response efficacy and consumers' PHB (Shirahmadi et al, 2021). Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been conducted to understand the role of self‐efficacy in PHB development to prevent the risks of LDs (Choi & Noh, 2020), and the effect of health literacy on PHB (Suanrueang et al, 2022).…”

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

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Knowledge, Anxiety, and Protective Behaviors Regarding Omicron among Secondary School Students

Knowledge, Anxiety, and Protective Behaviors Regarding Omicron among Secondary School Students

Determinants of COVID-19 preventive health behaviors in Iranian adults based on extended parallel process model

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

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