Discussion of Average versus Extreme Case Severity in Pandemic Risk Communications

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Zikmund-Fisher, Brian J. ; Scherer, Aaron M. ; Knaus, Megan ; Das, Enny ; Fagerlin, Angela
• Description:
  To investigate determinants of the public's perceptions of disease threat, in 2015 we conducted a randomized survey experiment in the Netherlands. Adults who read a mock news article describing average +or extreme outcomes from a hypothetical influenza pandemic were more influenced by average than by extreme case information. Presenting both types of information simultaneously appeared counterproductive.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 And Over Communication Data Collection Disease Transmission, Infectious Female Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Humans Influenza, Human / Epidemiology* Male Mass Media Middle Aged Pandemics Risk Risk Reduction Behavior Surveys And Questionnaires Young Adult

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 23(4):706-708.
• Pubmed ID:
  28322691
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5367401
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Letter
• Place as Subject:
  Netherlands
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5d78ecb48f30756e7f3633b92836aae363656ecda29b321e20f54549891920fa
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/45031/cdc_45031_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 352.96 KB ]