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ArticleFrontiers in public health2025

Trust, trust repair, and public health: a scoping review.

Peter Kalulu, Aubrey Fisher, Grace Whitter, Ipek Sener, Michelle Doering, David B Carter, Matthew Gabel, Jimin Ding, Michael Esposito, Caitlin L McMurtry and 2 more

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Peter KaluluBrown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Aubrey FisherDepartment of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Grace WhitterDepartment of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Ipek SenerDepartment of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Michelle DoeringBernard Becker Library, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.
David B CarterDepartment of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Matthew GabelDepartment of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Jimin DingDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Michael EspositoDepartment of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Caitlin L McMurtryBrown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Pradeep SoporyDepartment of Communication, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States.
Mark D HuffmanDepartment of Medicine, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: This study investigates the scope of evidence on trust, trust repair, and public health. Methods: We identified quantitative studies that evaluated the relationship between trust or trust repair and public health from January 1990 to May 2023. Results were stratified evaluating trust as an exposure or outcome and reporting on trust repair. Data are reported on spatiotemporal trends in publications, level of trust (institutional trust, generalized trust, and interpersonal trust), types of trust measures used, objects and determinants of trust, and associations between trust and public health behaviors. Results: Among 194 included studies, most (86%, 166/194) were published after the COVID-19 pandemic and in high-income countries. Among 40 reports that evaluated trust as an outcome, most (52%) evaluated trust in government. Socioeconomic factors ( Conclusion: This review provides a roadmap for future research on evaluating and improving trust and public health.

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COVID-19Public HealthTrustHumanshistorical determinantspublic healthscoping reviewtrusttrust repair

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PMID40575096
PMCPMC12199165

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