Government Intervention, Risk Perception, and the Adoption of Protective Action Recommendations

Evidence from the Covid-19 Prevention and Control Experience of China

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ID15500409
AutoresTaixiang Duan (0000-0003-0007-1805, Hohai University), Hechao Jiang (0000-0003-2276-4944, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, autor de correspondencia), Xiangshu Deng (0000-0003-4881-6925, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics), Qiongwen Zhang (0000-0003-2033-6663, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics), Fang Wang (0000-0001-7353-9080, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
Año2020
Volumen17
Número10
Páginas3387-3387
Fecha de publicación2020-05-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
EditorialMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph17103387
PMID32414013
OpenAlexW3025443954
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas36
Referencias citadas27

This study examines the relationships between government interventions, risk perception, and the public's adoption of protective action recommendations (PARs) during the COVID-19 coronavirus disease emergency in mainland China. We conducted quota sampling based on the proportion of the population in each province and gender ratios in the Sixth Census and obtained a sample size of 3837. Government intervention was divided into government communication, government prevention and control, and government rescue. We used multiple regression and a bootstrap mediation effect test to study the mechanism of these three forms of government intervention on the public's adoption of PARs. The results show that government prevention and control and government rescue significantly increased the likelihood of the public adopting PARs. Risk perception was significantly associated with the public's adoption of PARs. The effects of government interventions and risk perception on the public's adoption of PARs was not found to vary by region. Risk perception is identified as an important mediating factor between government intervention and the public's adoption of PARs. These results indicate that increasing the public's risk perception is an effective strategy for governments seeking to encourage the public to adopt PARs during the COVID-19 pandemic

Business · Economic interventionism · Environmental health · Government (linguistics · Perception · Political science · Politics · Population · Psychological intervention · Public health · Risk perception · Socioeconomics · Sociology · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · Disaster Management and Resilience · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Risk Perception and Management