{"id":2896,"date":"2020-12-21T12:24:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T20:25:51","slug":"how-information-sources-risk-perception-and-efficacy-appraisal-predicted-engagement-in-protective-behaviors-against-covid-19-a-repeated-cross-sectional-survey-in-china-preprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/21\/how-information-sources-risk-perception-and-efficacy-appraisal-predicted-engagement-in-protective-behaviors-against-covid-19-a-repeated-cross-sectional-survey-in-china-preprint\/","title":{"rendered":"How Information Sources, Risk Perception, and Efficacy Appraisal Predicted Engagement in Protective Behaviors Against COVID-19: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey in China (Preprint)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> A six-wave, repeated cross-sectional survey (N = 1942) conducted in six major cities in China from February to April found that reliance on expert sources for information on COVID-19 was not a major factor motivating protective actions (staying at home, wearing a facemask, and washing hands) until wave 3, and the negative effect of inexpert sources on these actions was limited to wave 2. In addition, perceived severity of COVID-19 infection exhibited a stronger effect on these behaviors than perceived susceptibility. The authors suggest that engagement in protective behaviors may have been driven by executive orders.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Rui et al. (Dec 18, 2020). How Information Sources, Risk Perception, and Efficacy Appraisal Predicted Engagement in Protective Behaviors Against COVID-19: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey in China (Preprint). JMIR Human Factors. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/23232\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/23232<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A six-wave, repeated cross-sectional survey (N = 1942) conducted in six major cities in China from February to April found that reliance on expert sources for information on COVID-19 was not a major factor motivating protective actions (staying at home, wearing a facemask, and washing hands) until wave 3, and the negative&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/21\/how-information-sources-risk-perception-and-efficacy-appraisal-predicted-engagement-in-protective-behaviors-against-covid-19-a-repeated-cross-sectional-survey-in-china-preprint\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}