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Examining The Influences Of Covid-19 Information Avoidance And Uncertainty On Perceived Severity Of The Pandemic: Applications From The Health Belief Model And Weick’S Model Of Organizing, Xuewei Chen, Jati Ariati, Ming Li, Gary Kreps
Examining The Influences Of Covid-19 Information Avoidance And Uncertainty On Perceived Severity Of The Pandemic: Applications From The Health Belief Model And Weick’S Model Of Organizing, Xuewei Chen, Jati Ariati, Ming Li, Gary Kreps
Health Behavior Research
Public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been insufficient at keeping the virus from spreading rapidly and threatening public health around the globe. Not only has society been challenged by biomedical issues of disease contagion, infection, morbidity, and mortality, but has also confronted complex cognitive challenges to making sense of this health threat, especially related to accurately evaluating and responding appropriately to the severity of the pandemic. Perceived severity is an important cognitive factor associated with public willingness to adopt needed prevention, protection, and treatment behaviors for responding to serious health risks, like COVID-19. Information avoidance and uncertainty are …