Feel free to remind your health care professionals to wash their hands…
Source: https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/pifs/the-importance-of-wearing-a-surgical-mask-while-in-hospital/
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We often assume that perceived risk determines compliance with protective measures. But both factors may vary over time, and what happens at one point may influence what happens at a later point. In a registered report that reached stage 2 approval this week (https://osf.io/jehm7), our team led by @sebastianbjorkheim.bsky.social examined this dynamic and bi-directional relationship over four time-points during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway.
A robust multiverse analysis did not show consistent relationships between risk and compliance at given measurement points, nor that risk at one time predicted future compliance, or vice versa.
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I presented a poster at a conference today, but I don't think a single person saw it! 😭 Please take a look to justify the resources I put into it.
We compared how people lining up for COVID-19 testing in 2020 compared to the average population. We found that test-takers saw the risk as lower, were more exposed to infection and took fewer precautions.
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What makes us comply to infection control measures? The #PANDRISK team performed a survey experiment in the early pandemic (N=2 533). We manipulated whether a pandemic outbreak was described as high (vs. low) risk with prosocial (vs. self-interested) appeals to comply. We found both factors to have small effects on intention to comply.
Now published as the first PhD paper of Sebastian Bjørkheim: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274024 #SurveyExperiment #compliance #InfectionControlMeasures #PandemicResearch
To limit an infectious outbreak, the public must be informed about the infection risk and be motivated to comply with infection control measures. Perceiving a situation as threatening and seeing benefits to complying may be necessary to motivate for compliance. The current study used a preregistered survey experiment with a 2-by-2 between-subject design to investigate if emphasizing high infection risk and appealing to societal benefits impacted intention to comply with infection control measures. The results from a representative Norwegian sample (N = 2533) show that describing a high (as opposed to low) personal risk scenario had a small main effect on compliance. Further, appealing to public (as opposed to self-interested) benefits also had a small main effect. There was no interaction between risk scenario and motivational emphasis. The results suggest that to maximize compliance, information about disease outbreak should emphasize the individual risk of contracting the disease, and could also underline the public value of limiting infection spread. These findings can inform health authorities about the motives underlying compliance with infection control measures during an infectious disease outbreak.
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