The need for entrepreneurs’ risk literacy: evidence from Italian SMEs and a call to arms

2021 ◽  
pp. 250-261
Author(s):  
Enrico Maria Cervellati
Keyword(s):  
Risk Literacy

scholarly journals Improving hand hygiene in hospitals: comparing the effect of a nudge and a boost on protocol compliance

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Henrico van Roekel ◽  
Joanne Reinhard ◽  
Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen
Keyword(s):  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Hand Hygiene Compliance ◽  
Hospital Nurses ◽  
Improve Hand Hygiene ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Risk Literacy ◽  
Hygiene Compliance ◽  
Hospital Wards

Abstract Nudging has become a well-known policy practice. Recently, ‘boosting’ has been suggested as an alternative to nudging. In contrast to nudges, boosts aim to empower individuals to exert their own agency to make decisions. This article is one of the first to compare a nudging and a boosting intervention, and it does so in a critical field setting: hand hygiene compliance of hospital nurses. During a 4-week quasi-experiment, we tested the effect of a reframing nudge and a risk literacy boost on hand hygiene compliance in three hospital wards. The results show that nudging and boosting were both effective interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance. A tentative finding is that, while the nudge had a stronger immediate effect, the boost effect remained stable for a week, even after the removal of the intervention. We conclude that, besides nudging, researchers and policymakers may consider boosting when they seek to implement or test behavioral interventions in domains such as healthcare.

scholarly journals Cancer screening risk literacy of physicians in training: An experimental study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. e0218821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dafina Petrova ◽  
Guiliana Mas ◽  
Gorka Navarrete ◽  
Tania Tello Rodriguez ◽  
Pedro J. Ortiz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Risk Literacy

scholarly journals Visual Risk Literacy in “Flatten the Curve” COVID-19 Visualizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy R. Amidon ◽  
Alex C. Nielsen ◽  
Ehren H. Pflugfelder ◽  
Daniel P. Richards ◽  
Sonia H. Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Professional Communication ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
Viral Spread ◽  
Data Representations ◽  
Public Risk ◽  
Risk Literacy ◽  
Technical And Professional Communication

This article explores how “flatten the curve” (FTC) visualizations have served as a rhetorical anchor for communicating the risk of viral spread during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning from the premise that risk visualizations have eclipsed their original role as supplemental to public risk messaging and now function as an organizer of discourse, the authors highlight three rhetorical tensions (epideictic–deliberative, global–local, conceptual metaphors–data representations) with the goal of considering how the field of technical and professional communication might more strongly support visual risk literacy in future crises.

scholarly journals Risk Literacy in Early Childhood Education Under a Lifelong Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 4830-4833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoi Nikiforidou ◽  
Jenny Pange ◽  
Theodore Chadjipadelis
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Risk Literacy

Do People Understand their Home HIV Test Results? Risk Literacy and Information Search

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1323-1327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina M. Ellis ◽  
Edward T. Cokely ◽  
Saima Ghazal ◽  
Rocio Garcia-Retamero
Keyword(s):  
Information Search ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Hiv Test ◽  
Risk Literacy

scholarly journals Contribution of Risk Perception and Communication in Aviation Safety Events

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812110516
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Chionis ◽  
Nektarios Karanikas ◽  
Alice-Rebecca Iordan ◽  
Antonia Svensson-Dianellou
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Physiological Factors ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Literacy Interventions ◽  
Safety Reporting ◽  
Investigation Methods ◽  
Risk Literacy ◽  
Risk Perception And Communication

Although effective risk management during operations relies on risk perception and risk communication, the aviation industry has not systematically considered the contribution of these two constructs to safety events. This study analyzed a representative sample of safety investigation reports (1) to identify the degree to which risk perception and communication and their factors have been influential overall and across various flight operation stages of investigated events, and (2) to examine whether their contribution has changed with time. The analysis of 140 reports showed environmental factors affected risk communication and perception most frequently, whereas emotional and physiological factors were found in the sample with very low frequencies. Also, risk communication and perception and their factors did not appear with the same frequency across the various flight stages, and a few variations were observed over time. The aviation industry could consider the results of this study to steer its efforts toward mitigating the adverse effects of factors related to ineffective risk perception and communication. This could include the inclusion of respective factors in safety reporting schemes, investigation methods and analyses and, possibly, a tailored approach to the various flight stages and targeted risk literacy interventions.

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