What is my covid risk?

Finnikin, Samuel; Spiegelhalter, David

doi:10.1136/bmj.n637

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“…However, there are ongoing uncertainties about the future reopening of borders and the potential for community transmission despite vaccinations being available. The situation in Aotearoa New Zealand is distinct from many other countries that have experienced multiple waves and multiple nationwide lockdowns in attempting to control transmission rates and this means that the findings of our study add to the existing international research by providing evidence of the correlates of fears about COVID-19 and perceived risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection following the clinical distinction between understanding risk of negative outcomes and risk of infection that has been recommended when discussing COVID-19 (Finnikin & Spiegelhalter, 2021). The findings of this study thus provide health professionals with further evidence about the psychological reactions to COVID-19 that will assist in providing appropriate reassurance and responsive care for people with rheumatic disease as the pandemic progresses and beyond.…”

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“…Research is therefore needed to ascertain the correlates of fear and perceived risk among patients in order to help healthcare professionals provide appropriate reassurance when making treatment recommendations based on evidence of the risks and benefits of DMARDs and other treatments. We applied a model of fears and perceived risk based on the distinction between risk of negative outcomes and risk of infection that has been recommended when discussing COVID‐19 (Finnikin & Spiegelhalter, 2021 ).…”

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Fears about COVID‐19 and perceived risk among people with rheumatoid arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis following the initial lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand

Treharne

Johnstone

Fletcher

et al. 2021

Musculoskeletal Care

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Background The COVID‐19 pandemic has disrupted all aspects of life and may raise particular fears for people with rheumatic disease. There is a need for research on fears and perceived risk of SARS‐CoV‐2 so as to understand the impact on wellbeing and inform service provision. Objectives The aim of this study was to examine the correlates of COVID‐19 fears and perceived risk of SARS‐CoV‐2 among people with rheumatoid arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis. Design A cross‐sectional survey design was applied in Aotearoa New Zealand in the period after initial nationwide lockdowns. Method An online survey was completed from July to September 2020 by 126 individuals with rheumatoid arthritis ( n = 96) or ankylosing spondylitis ( n = 30) who had previously been recruited to the Patient Opinion Real‐Time Anonymous Liaison (PORTAL) study in 2015 or 2018. The survey included demographics and health information as well as measures of COVID‐19 fears and experiences, functional disability and fatigue‐related disability. Results Fears about COVID‐19 were higher among younger participants, those who had been tested for SARS‐CoV‐2, and those who experienced more flares over the initial lockdown. Perceived risk of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection was also higher among individual who had been tested for SARS‐CoV‐2 and those taking biologic medications. Conclusion Fears about COVID‐19 and perceived risk of infection are related to age, health and medications among individuals with rheumatoid arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis. These findings inform how health professionals can help address the concerns of particular groups of people with rheumatic disease by providing relevant information about the ongoing effects of the pandemic.

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Fears about COVID‐19 and perceived risk among people with rheumatoid arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis following the initial lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand

Treharne

Johnstone

Fletcher

et al. 2021

Musculoskeletal Care

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“…Associated with the growth of an increasingly litigious health and safety culture, risk is also implicated in many Western governmental initiatives, including the growing reliance on nudge economics (Thaler and Sunstein, 2008), which uses carefully planned messaging to influence responsible decisionmaking. Most recently, risk has come to prominence within the COVID-19 pandemic when people were forced to either make or abide by decisions made for them about the personal, social, and economic risks of becoming infected with the SARS-2 virus (Brown, 2020;Finnikin & Spiegelhalter, 2021). The importance that is placed upon risk calls for a detailed examination of the role that information plays in shaping responses to hazard and danger, including in everyday as well as more specialised health and political contexts.…”

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Risky (information) business: an informational risk research agenda

Hicks

2023

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PurposeThe purpose of this conceptual paper is to suggest that the growing sociocultural theorisation of risk calls for a more robust research focus on the role that information and in particular, information literacy, plays in mediating hazards and danger.Design/methodology/approachStarting by tracing how information has been conceptualised in relation to risk through technoscientific, cognitive and sociocultural lenses, the paper then focuses on emerging sociocultural understandings of risk to present a research agenda for a renewed sociocultural exploration of how risk is shaped through the enactment of information literacy.FindingsThe paper identifies and examines how information literacy shapes four key aspects of risk, including risk perception, risk management, risk-taking and “at-risk” populations. These four aspects are further connected through broader themes of learning, identity, work and power, which form the basis of the sociocultural risk research agenda.Originality/valueThis paper is the first study bringing together the many understandings related to how risk is informed and establishes risk as a key area of interest within information literacy research.

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“…Medicine is the new rock’n’roll, as one award winning magazine editor recently told me. Both public and profession grappled with the little known—from assessing personal covid-19 risk to managing acute respiratory failure, on both of which we offer updates 89. Whether it is the disputed value of prophylactic hydroxychloroquine or the controversial merits of delaying a second vaccine dose,1011 medical leadership was rarely more in demand.…”

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O leader, where art thou?

Abbasi¹

2021

BMJ

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What's the role of a medical leader? What's needed to head a college, medical association, or health service? Is it about supporting colleagues who experience unprecedented levels of abuse and violence from frustrated patients? 1 Is it about charting a clear path to revive training affected by the pandemic, as Clara Munro and colleagues argue? 2 Is it about tackling institutional discrimination, as the Royal College of Surgeons must now do, 3 or protecting staff wellbeing, 4 or solving access problems in primary care? 5 6

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What is my covid risk?

Abstract: This is part of a series of occasional articles on common problems in primary care. The BMJ welcomes contributions from GPs.

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Fears about COVID‐19 and perceived risk among people with rheumatoid arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis following the initial lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand

Fears about COVID‐19 and perceived risk among people with rheumatoid arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis following the initial lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand

Risky (information) business: an informational risk research agenda

O leader, where art thou?

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