Risk Perception and Depression in Public Health Crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in China
Risk Perception and Depression in Public Health Crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in China
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DOI：
10.3390/ijerph17165728
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发表时间：
2020-08-01
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通讯作者：
Xie, Shenghua
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作者：
Ding, Yubin;Xu, Junling;Xie, Shenghua
背景：人们很少关注公共卫生危机的风险感知如何影响人们的心理健康。目的：本研究的目的是（1）构建公共卫生危机中人们的风险感知和抑郁的概念框架，（2）研究2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）危机中人们的心理健康如何受到风险感知及其相关因素的影响，包括危机的距离感知和防控政策的支持，以及（3）提出政策建议探讨如何应对当前COVID-19危机中的心理问题。方法：实施在线问卷调查。共有6373人在线访问问卷，1115人完成问卷，有效问卷数1081份。采用结构方程模型进行数据分析。结果：风险感知及其相关因素显着影响公共卫生危机中人群的心理健康。具体来说，（1）公共卫生危机的距离感知与人们的抑郁呈负相关，（2）情感风险感知与公共卫生危机中的人们的抑郁呈正相关，（3）认知风险感知与公共卫生危机中的人们的抑郁呈负相关，（4）防控政策的支持与公共卫生危机中的人们的抑郁呈负相关。结论：本研究的结果表明，风险感知在影响公共卫生危机中人们的心理健康方面发挥着重要作用。危机。因此，旨在改善公共卫生危机中民众心理健康的卫生政策应考虑风险认知。
Background:Scant attention has been paid to how risk perceptions of public health crises may affect people's mental health.Aims: The aims of this study are to (1) construct a conceptual framework for risk perception and depression of people in public health crises, (2) examine how the mental health of people in the crisis of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is affected by risk perception and its associated factors, including distance perception of the crisis and support of prevention and control policies, and (3) propose policy recommendations on how to deal with psychological problems in the current COVID-19 crisis.Methods: Online questionnaire survey was implemented. A total of 6373 people visited the questionnaire online, 1115 people completed the questionnaire, and the number of valid questionnaires was 1081. Structural equation modeling was employed for data analysis.Results: Risk perception and its associated factors significantly affect the mental health of people in public health crises. Specifically, (1) distance perception of public health crises is negatively associated with depression among people, (2) affective risk perception is positively associated with depression of people in public health crises, (3) cognitive risk perception is negatively associated with depression of people in public health crises, and (4) support of prevention and control policies is negatively associated with depression of people in public health crises.Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that risk perception plays an important role in affecting the mental health of people in a public health crisis. Therefore, health policies aiming to improve the psychological wellbeing of the people in a public health crisis should take risk perception into consideration.