Physical Distancing and Hand Washing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The role of fear, perceived seriousness, and health knowledge

Krägeloh, Christian U.; Alyami, Mohsen; Alyami, Hussain; Alwaily, Mohammed; Alhuwaydi, Ahmed Mohammed; Henning, Marcus A.

doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-59188/v1

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“…First, the opportunity to learn speaks to an individual's ability to overcome financial and logistical barriers of access to sources of information. Not surprisingly, higher levels of knowledge about COVID-19 are observed among individuals with higher income (Al-Hanawi et al, 2020;Azlan et al, 2020;Clements, 2020;Krägeloh et al, 2020) and among those with greater access to means of communication (Olapegba et al, 2020). In poor countries, financial, and communications infrastructure barriers reduce access to the Internet and other technological equipment like cell phones and computers, especially among the most vulnerable (Coetzee and Kagee, 2020).…”

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Political Preferences, Knowledge, and Misinformation About COVID-19: The Case of Brazil

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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a vast research agenda focusing on how citizens acquire knowledge about the virus and the health expert guidelines to protect themselves and their close ones against it. While many countries and regions have been accounted for, there still remains a substantial gap with respect to public opinion about the virus in Latin America, most notably in Brazil, which currently has the second highest in number of fatalities in the world. In this article, we employ a national survey of Brazilians (n = 2,771) to measure and explain knowledge and misinformation about the coronavirus and its illness, COVID-19. Our focus concerns the role of political preferences in a context of high elite polarization with a sitting government that has systematically downplayed the risks associated with the coronavirus and its illness. Our findings are clear: political preferences play a substantial role in explaining differences in knowledge about the coronavirus and COVID-19, more than conventional determinants of learning like motivation, ability, and opportunities. Specifically, we find that supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro—an avid science and COVID-19 denier—know significantly less about the coronavirus and its illness and are more likely to believe in a conspiracy theory that claims that the coronavirus was purposefully created in a Chinese laboratory to promote China's economic power, when compared to Brazilians who are less supportive of him and his government. Our findings carry important implications for how Brazilians take informational cues from political elites in that—even in a major event like a global pandemic—supporters of the president are as likely as ever to “follow their leader” and deny expert-backed scientific evidence.

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Political Preferences, Knowledge, and Misinformation About COVID-19: The Case of Brazil

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The use of fear appeals for pandemic compliance: A systematic review of empirical measurement, fear appeal strategies and effectiveness

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The Influence of Asepsis Practices Taught to Nursing Students During Their Education on their Individual Practices During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Uludağ Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi

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Hemşirelik eğitiminin bir parçası olarak klinik uygulamalara katılan hemşirelik öğrencilerinin Covid-19’da koruyucu önlemleri, bu önlemlerin doğru olarak uygulanmasını bilmesi son derece önemlidir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, hemşirelik öğrencilerine hemşirelik eğitimi sırasında öğretilen asepsi uygulamalarının Covid -19 pandemi dönemindeki bireysel uygulamalarına (el yıkama, eldiven kullanma, maske takma) etkisini belirlemektir. Araştırmanın örneklemini çalışmaya katılmayı kabul eden 233 öğrenci oluşturdu. Veriler, Ağustos 2020 – Eylül 2020 arasında Google Form aracılığı ile anket formunun linki öğrencilerin WhatsApp gruplarında paylaşılarak toplandı. Anket formunun cevaplanması her bir öğrenci için yaklaşık 10 dakika sürdü. Veriler, Tanıtıcı Özellikler Soru Formu (5 soru) ve Asepsi Uygulamalarını Değerlendirme Formu (13 madde) toplandı. Verilerin istatistiksel değerlendirilmesine SPSS 23.0 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) paket programı kullanıldı. Anlamlılık düzeyi p

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Physical Distancing and Hand Washing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The role of fear, perceived seriousness, and health knowledge

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

Political Preferences, Knowledge, and Misinformation About COVID-19: The Case of Brazil

Political Preferences, Knowledge, and Misinformation About COVID-19: The Case of Brazil

The use of fear appeals for pandemic compliance: A systematic review of empirical measurement, fear appeal strategies and effectiveness

The Influence of Asepsis Practices Taught to Nursing Students During Their Education on their Individual Practices During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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