{"id":5398,"date":"2020-03-23T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2021-03-02T14:46:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:46:43","slug":"how-health-anxiety-influences-responses-to-viral-outbreaks-like-covid-19-what-all-decision-makers-health-authorities-and-health-care-professionals-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/23\/how-health-anxiety-influences-responses-to-viral-outbreaks-like-covid-19-what-all-decision-makers-health-authorities-and-health-care-professionals-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"How health anxiety influences responses to viral outbreaks like COVID-19: What all decision makers, health authorities, and health care professionals need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Psychological factors play a vital role in the success of public health strategies (risk communication, vaccination and antiviral therapy, hygiene practices, and social distancing) used to manage outbreaks like COVID-19.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is critical for public health decision-makers, health authorities and health care providers across disciplines to understand how health anxiety may influence individual behaviors during COVID-19. This will help tailor messages that may curb irresponsible decisions by the general public.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asmundson &amp; Taylor (Mar 10, 2020). How health anxiety influences responses to viral outbreaks like COVID-19: What all decision makers, health authorities, and health care professionals need to know. Jour of Anxiety Disorder. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.janxdis.2020.102211\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.janxdis.2020.102211<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychological factors play a vital role in the success of public health strategies (risk communication, vaccination and antiviral therapy, hygiene practices, and social distancing) used to manage outbreaks like COVID-19. It is critical for public health decision-makers, health authorities and health care providers across disciplines to understand how health anxiety may influence individual behaviors during&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/23\/how-health-anxiety-influences-responses-to-viral-outbreaks-like-covid-19-what-all-decision-makers-health-authorities-and-health-care-professionals-need-to-know\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5399,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}