scholarly journals The COVID States Project #27: Trajectory of COVID-19-related behaviors in Illinois

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Druckman ◽  
Jennifer Lin ◽  
Roy H. Perlis ◽  
Mauricio Santillana ◽  
David Lazer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Health Related Behaviors ◽  
Health Related ◽  
And Behaviors

The number of COVID-19 cases in Illinois has risen sharply over the last two months, from about 2,000 new cases a day in late September to 10,000 or so currently. In this report we evaluate whether there have been significant changes in the behaviors that facilitate the spread of the disease. The COVID States Project has been conducting a 50-state survey roughly once a month since April about attitudes and behaviors around COVID-19. Here we focus on public-health related behaviors that facilitate/inhibit the spread of the disease. It has become apparent that behaviors of particular importance are (1) those which bring people into indoor proximity; and (2) mask wearing.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: A Study of the Understanding, Attitudes and Behaviors of Social Media Users

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 768-788
Author(s):  
Lowai G. Abed
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Health Related ◽  
And Behaviors

The dissemination of information via social media is important, particularly during a public health emergency. However, while it is undoubtedly useful in the targeting of genuine health communications, social media may also be used to spread health-related misinformation at times of disease outbreak or pandemic. The study presented here researches the spread of COVID-19 misinformation in Saudi Arabia, by exploring the relevant understanding, attitudes, and behaviors of Saudi Arabian citizens. The current study comprises a survey of 318 adults in Saudi Arabia, of all age groups and educational backgrounds, and from all Saudi Arabian provinces. This study highlights the significance of COVID-19 misinformation and concludes that, despite risks to public health and wellbeing, Saudi Arabian citizens do not consider COVID-19 misinformation to be a significant problem. Participants in this study were relatively aware of such misinformation and its dangers, but it did not greatly concern them, and generally they declined to tackle it proactively. 

Relations between Family Structure and Students' Health-Related Attitudes and Behaviors

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 851-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis Theodorakis ◽  
Athanasios Papaioannou ◽  
Kaliopi Karastogianidou
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Health Related Behaviors ◽  
Health Related ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
And Behavior

This study examined the relations between family structure and students' health-related behaviors. Participants were 6,130 Greek students, ages 11 to 16 years. They responded to questionnaires based on the Planned Behavior model assessing attitudes, perceived behavioral control, intentions and behavior regarding healthy and unhealthy habits. Students who reported growing up with one or no parent reported more unhealthy lifestyle attitudes and behaviors (smoking, drug use, violence, exercise, nutrition) than students growing up with both parents. The findings suggest that family structure is related to students' healthy or unhealthy lifestyle, indicating that in health education programs all members of the close environment within which the children live should be involved, especially for children who do not live with both parents.

COVIDiots and Cogency

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-85
Author(s):  
Roy Schwartzman ◽  
Jenni M. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heuristics And Biases ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Health Experts

The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States spawns a perplexing polemic. Intransigent coronavirus skeptics who defy public health recommendations often get cast as ideological zealots or as perniciously ignorant. Both characterizations overlook a more fundamental epistemic opposition. The authors recast the conflict between COVID-19 skeptics and public health advocates as the rhetorical incompatibility between the deliberative, scientifically grounded public health experts and the intuitive, emotion-driven mental heuristics of the non-compliant. This study examines the discourse of COVID-19 misinformation purveyors on broadcast media and online. Their main contentions rely on heuristics and biases that collectively not only undermine trust in particular medical experts, but also undercut trust in the institutions and reasoning processes of science itself. The findings suggest ways that public health campaigns can become more effective by leveraging some of the intuitive drivers of attitudes and behaviors that scientists and argumentation theorists routinely dismiss as fallacious.

scholarly journals Role of the Built and Online Social Environments on Expression of Dining on Instagram

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vishwali Mhasawade ◽  
Anas Elghafari ◽  
Dustin T. Duncan ◽  
Rumi Chunara
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Health Related Behaviors ◽  
Health Related

Online social communities are becoming windows for learning more about the health of populations, through information about our health-related behaviors and outcomes from daily life. At the same time, just as public health data and theory has shown that aspects of the built environment can affect our health-related behaviors and outcomes, it is also possible that online social environments (e.g., posts and other attributes of our online social networks) can also shape facets of our life. Given the important role of the online environment in public health research and implications, factors which contribute to the generation of such data must be well understood. Here we study the role of the built and online social environments in the expression of dining on Instagram in Abu Dhabi; a ubiquitous social media platform, city with a vibrant dining culture, and a topic (food posts) which has been studied in relation to public health outcomes. Our study uses available data on user Instagram profiles and their Instagram networks, as well as the local food environment measured through the dining types (e.g., casual dining restaurants, food court restaurants, lounges etc.) by neighborhood. We find evidence that factors of the online social environment (profiles that post about dining versus profiles that do not post about dining) have different influences on the relationship between a user’s built environment and the social dining expression, with effects also varying by dining types in the environment and time of day. We examine the mechanism of the relationships via moderation and mediation analyses. Overall, this study provides evidence that the interplay of online and built environments depend on attributes of said environments and can also vary by time of day. We discuss implications of this synergy for precisely-targeting public health interventions, as well as on using online data for public health research.

scholarly journals Scientific reasoning as a predictor of health-related beliefs and behaviors in the time of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimira Cavojova ◽  
Jakub Šrol ◽  
Eva Ballová Mikušková
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Independent Predictor ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Health Related Behaviors ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Conspiracy Beliefs ◽  
And Behaviors

We examined whether scientific reasoning predicts health-related beliefs and behaviors over and above the general analytic thinking ability in general public (N = 783, aged between 18 – 84 years). Health-related beliefs included: the anti-vaccination attitudes, conspiracy beliefs related to the COVID-19 disease, and some generic epistemically suspect beliefs related to health. Scientific reasoning predicted generic pseudoscientific and conspiracy beliefs related to health and also conspiracy beliefs related specifically to COVID-19. Crucially, scientific reasoning was a stronger independent predictor of unfounded beliefs (including anti-vaccination attitudes) than general analytic thinking, however, its role in the health-related behaviors was more modest.

scholarly journals The COVID States Project #44: Trajectory of health-related behaviors in Massachusetts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lazer ◽  
Jennifer Lin ◽  
Matthew Baum ◽  
Roy H. Perlis ◽  
Mauricio Santillana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Health Related Behaviors ◽  
Health Related

In this report, we analyze the trajectory of the pandemic in Massachusetts, from late April 2020 to March 1, 2021, examining public health behaviors and approval of Governor Charlie Baker’s handling of the crisis. For information on other states, please consult our interactive dashboard.

scholarly journals How scientific reasoning correlates with health-related beliefs and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic?

2020 ◽  
pp. 135910532096226
Author(s):  
Vladimíra Čavojová ◽  
Jakub Šrol ◽  
Eva Ballová Mikušková
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Independent Predictor ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Health Related Behaviors ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Conspiracy Beliefs ◽  
And Behaviors

We examined whether scientific reasoning is associated with health-related beliefs and behaviors over and above general analytic thinking ability in the general public ( N = 783, aged 18–84). Health-related beliefs included: anti-vaccination attitudes, COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, and generic health-related epistemically suspect beliefs. Scientific reasoning correlated with generic pseudoscientific and health-related conspiracy beliefs and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs. Crucially, scientific reasoning was a stronger independent predictor of unfounded beliefs (including anti-vaccination attitudes) than general analytic thinking was; however, it had a more modest role in health-related behaviors.

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