ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Trust in the Health System and COVID-19 Treatment.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Why do people trust (or mistrust) health organizations? A systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2026Pooled it
- The Role of Trust in COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Considerations from a Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Socio-Emotional Values Within Organizations.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- What shapes trust in healthcare? Socio-economic and structural determinants of trust in formal and traditional health providers across 111 countries.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between COVID-19 Vaccine Regret, Distrust of the Healthcare System, and Future Vaccine Intentions.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2026Article
- Workplace violence, occupational burnout, and post-traumatic stress among healthcare workers in Armenia.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Public Perceptions on the Efficiency of National Healthcare Systems Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Health Decisions Under Uncertainty: The Roles of Conspiracy Beliefs and Institutional Trust.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Comprehensive drug policies increase trust in local government: an analysis of authorities' and residents' perspectives in rural US Appalachian and Midwestern counties.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Paranoia affected COVID-19 vaccine refusal by increasing beliefs in conspiracy theories and mistrust of science.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Responding to fluctuations in public and community trust and health seeking behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of national decision-makers' perspectives in Guinea and Sierra Leone.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The role of trust in the implementation and uptake of COVID-19 response measures: a qualitative study of health professionals' experiences in Tanzania.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Of primary health care reforms and pandemic responses: understanding perspectives of health system actors in Kerala before and during COVID-19.BMC primary care · 2023Article
- Who do we trust and how do we cope with COVID-19? A mixed-methods sequential exploratory approach to understanding supportive messages across 35 cultures.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2023Article
- Home-Isolation Care in Newly COVID-19-Positive Elderly Patients: A Caregiver-Centric Explanatory Framework.International journal of public health · 2023Article
- Economic expectations and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: a one-year longitudinal evaluation on Italian university students.Quality & quantity · 2023Article
- COVID-19 risk perception and associated factors in older adults in southern Ethiopia.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2022Article
- Contributions of Trustworthiness, Health Literacy, and Self-Efficacy in Communicating With COVID-19 Vaccine-Hesitant Audiences: Web-Based Survey Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Trust in Medicine as a Factor Conditioning Behaviors Recommended by Healthcare Experts during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Relationship Between COVID-19 Threat Beliefs and Individual Differences in Demographics, Personality, and Related Beliefs.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe at an exponential speed, infecting millions and overwhelming even the most prepared healthcare systems. Concerns are looming that the healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are mostly unprepared to combat the virus because of limited resources. The problems in LMICs are exacerbated by the fact that citizens in these countries generally exhibit low trust in the healthcare system because of its low quality, which could trigger a number of uncooperative behaviors. In this paper, we focus on one such behavior and investigate the relationship between trust in the healthcare system and the probability of potential treatment-seeking behavior upon the appearance of the first symptoms of COVID-19. First, we provide motivating evidence from a unique national online survey administered in Armenia-a post-Soviet LMIC country. We then present results from a large-scale survey experiment in Armenia that provides causal evidence supporting the investigated relationship. Our main finding is that a more trustworthy healthcare system enhances the probability of potential treatment-seeking behavior when observing the initial symptoms.
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