Media Exposure and Health Behavior during Pandemics: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Knowledge and Fear on Compliance with COVID-19 Prevention Measures
Media Exposure and Health Behavior during Pandemics: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Knowledge and Fear on Compliance with COVID-19 Prevention Measures
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DOI：
10.1080/10410236.2020.1858564
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发表时间：
2020-12-18
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Hitti，Eveline
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作者：
Melki，Jad;Tamim，Hani;Hitti，Eveline
新兴的研究已经审查了媒体对疾病的报道在影响人们的健康行为，特别是他们遵守预防措施方面的作用。本研究探讨了媒体对COVID-19新闻的曝光和人际传播是否与人们遵守预防措施呈正相关，以及感知知识和恐惧是否介导了这种关系。这项研究的重点是黎巴嫩，该国政府和媒体的反应导致COVID-19在第一阶段得到成功遏制，尽管该国正在经历严重的经济危机、广泛的政治动荡和大量难民涌入。它通过对1，536名成年人和全国代表性概率样本进行的跨部门研究人员管理的电话调查，研究了传统媒体（电视）和社交媒体以及人际沟通。实地调查于2020年3月27日至4月23日进行，回复率为51.6%。研究结果支持了以下假设，即媒体对COVID-19新闻的曝光增加与人们遵守预防措施呈正相关，而感知知识和恐惧介导了这种关系。然而，同样的假设，人际传播不支持。
Emerging research has examined the role of media coverage of diseases in influencing people’s health behavior, particularly their compliance with prevention measures. This study examines whether increased media exposure to COVID-19 news and interpersonal communication about the disease positively relate to people’s abidance by prevention measures, and whether perceived knowledge and fear mediate this relationship. The study focuses on Lebanon, whose government and media responses led to a successful containment of COVID-19 in its first phase, although the country was experiencing a severe economic crisis, widespread political unrest, and a massive influx of refugees. It examines both legacy media (Television) and social media, as well as interpersonal communication, through a cross-sectional researcher-administered phone survey of 1,536 adults and a nationally representative probability sample. The fieldwork was conducted between March 27 and April 23, 2020, and resulted in a 51.6% response rate. The findings support the hypotheses that increased media exposure to COVID-19 news positively relates to people’s abidance by prevention measures and that perceived knowledge and fear mediate this relationship. However, the same hypotheses for interpersonal communication were not supported.