ArticleApplied psychology. Health and well-being2021
It won't happen to me! Psychosocial factors influencing risk perception for respiratory infectious diseases: A scoping review.
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- Are you afraid of COVID-19? Motivation and engagement in infection-prevention behaviour in a UK community cohort during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic.British journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- Recent personal and vicarious experience with COVID-19 affects personal, but not comparative optimism: a large longitudinal study.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Attitudes towards zoonotic disease risk vary across sociodemographic, communication and health-related factors: A general population survey on literacy about zoonoses in the Netherlands.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Disease avoidance threatens social cohesion in a large-scale social networking experiment.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- The Relationship Between Meaning in Life and Health Behaviors in Adults Aged 55 Years and Over During the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Mediating Role of Risk Perception and the Moderating Role of Powerful Others Health Locus of Control.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Article
- Three dimensions of COVID-19 risk perceptions and their socioeconomic correlates in the United States: A social media analysis.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2023Article
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- Respiratory infection prevention: perceptions, barriers and facilitators after SARS-CoV-2.Infection, disease & health · 2023Article
- Effect of educational intervention based on protection motivation theory on preventive behaviors of respiratory infections among hospital staff.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- COVID-19 Infection among Nursing Students in Spain: The Risk Perception, Perceived Risk Factors, Coping Style, Preventive Knowledge of the Disease and Sense of Coherence as Psychological Predictor Variables: A Cross Sectional Survey.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2022Article
- Behind the Scenes of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Psychological Predictors in an Italian Community Sample.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Factors associated with the risk perception of COVID-19 infection and severe illness: A cross-sectional study in Japan.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Increased Risk Perception, Distress Intolerance and Health Anxiety in Stricter Lockdowns: Self-Control as a Key Protective Factor in Early Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Baseline clinical features of COVID-19 patients, delay of hospital admission and clinical outcome: A complex relationship.PloS one · 2022Article
- Bayesian subjectivism and psychosocial attitude toward COVID-19 vaccines.F1000Research · 2022Article
- It won't happen to me! Psychosocial factors influencing risk perception for respiratory infectious diseases: A scoping review.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2021Article
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Abstract
Understanding the determinants of risk perception for COVID-19 might help to promote self-preventive behaviours. This scoping review aimed to map the extent, variety and characteristics of the evidence on the possible determinants of risk perception for COVID-like diseases. PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science were searched for original, peer-reviewed English-written articles published up to March 2020 and investigating risk perception determinants for respiratory infectious diseases in adults. Titles and abstracts were screened, and full texts were analysed by the first author; when unsure, eligibility was discussed with the last author. Data were collected according to an extraction sheet developed by the first and last authors. The cross-sectional evidence covers a variety of diseases, countries and timings of testing. Mostly, questionnaires recorded socio-demographics, media exposure, trust in institutions, disease proximity and knowledge; psychological variables, including personality traits, distress and self-efficacy, were less investigated. A miscellaneous operationalization of risk perception emerged, including the likelihood of getting sick, perceived dangerousness, concerns or a combination of them. A comprehensive understanding of the substantial amount of evidence may be challenging due to methodological heterogeneity. Referring to uniform theoretical frameworks is recommended; also, longitudinal research may be implemented to probe causal relationships.
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