ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2022
Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Influence of government policies on handwashing and vaccine uptake in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania to prevent and control COVID-19: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Trust, trust repair, and public health: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Impact of social fairness perception on sense of social security in China's COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of political trust.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Promoting COVID-19 vaccine confidence through public responses to misinformation: The joint influence of message source and message content.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- The links between COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and non-pharmaceutical interventions.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Variation in Public Trust, Perceived Societal Fairness, and Well-Being before and after COVID-19 Onset-Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- World Health Organization is losing online credibility towards health-sensitive topics: Infodemiological analysis of Facebook users' reactions.Health promotion perspectives · 2022Article
- The impact of major public health emergencies on Trust in Government: From SARS to COVID-19.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
We examine how trust shapes compliance with public health restrictions during the COVID- 19 pandemic in Uganda. We use an endorsement experiment embedded in a mobile phone survey to show that messages from government officials generate more support for public health restrictions than messages from religious authorities, traditional leaders, or international NGOs. We further show that compliance with these restrictions is strongly positively correlated with trust in government, but only weakly correlated with trust in local authorities or other citizens. We use measures of trust from both before and during the pandemic to rule out the possibility that trust is a function of the pandemic itself. The relationship between trust and compliance is especially strong for the Ministry of Health and-more surprisingly-the police. We conclude that trust is crucial for encouraging compliance but note that it may be difficult to sustain, particularly in settings where governments and police forces have reputations for repression.
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