ArticleBMC public health2015
Perceptual influences on self-protective behavior for West Nile virus, a survey in Colorado, USA.
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- Project ITCH: cross-sectional surveys to understand residential vector control attitudes and practices across New England.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Place-based communication methods and prior knowledge increase public perceptions regarding West Nile virus risk and personal protective behaviors in Colorado.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Determinants of intended prevention behaviour against mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses in the Netherlands and Spain using the MosquitoWise survey: cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- How do attitudes shape protective practices against the Asian tiger mosquito in community gardens in a nonendemic country?Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- Public Perceptions on Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for West Nile Virus Infections: A Survey from an Endemic Area in Northern Italy.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2021Article
- Sociodemographic predictors of knowledge, mosquito bite patterns and protective behaviors concerning vector borne disease: The case of dengue fever in Chinese subtropical city, Hong Kong.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- The Ecology of Protective Behaviors: A Study in New Risk Areas for Mosquito-Borne Diseases.EcoHealth · 2020Article
- Weather-based forecasting of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks in Canada.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2019Article
- The Role of Risk Proximity in the Beliefs and Behaviors Related to Mosquito-Borne Diseases: The Case of Chikungunya in French Guiana.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017Article
- Risk perceptions, attitudes, and knowledge of chikungunya among the public and health professionals: a systematic review.Tropical medicine and health · 2017Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe endemic state of West Nile virus (WNv) in North America underscores the need to examine mechanisms influencing human self-protective behavior. Based on previous findings and theory, this study is designed to achieve two specific aims. First, the study will examine self-protective behavior for WNv through a hybridized treatment of the Health Belief Model that includes cognitive, affective, ecological, and proximity risk perception measures. Second, within the resulting hybridized model explore the role of ethnicity in self-protective behavior for WNv.
methodsData were collected in Greeley, Colorado, using a self-administered mail survey. 384 completed surveys were returned (49% completion rate). The questionnaire used items on cognitive-affective risk perception, ecological and proximity risk perception constructs, the Health Belief Model and demographics.
resultsAnalysis revealed that newer risk perception models (ecological and proximity) provide some power to explain protective behavior. The psychometric measures of risk perception (cognitive and affective components) provided the best explanatory power. Self-protective behavior was further enhanced by the perception of benefits associated with such actions and the exposure to information cues to action. Hispanic/Latinos demonstrate greater perception of risk/susceptibility and greater exposure to information cues to action, and were more likely to practice self-protective behavior.
conclusionsThe findings in this study point to several useful openings for effective public health communication and intervention for WNv based on affective response, information exposure, and ethnicity. The results also have relevance for vectored diseases generally. It is becoming clear that changes in global climate will bring increased threat from mosquito vectored diseases. Mosquito protection will be an increasingly salient topic for public health communicators in the coming years.
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