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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nicky Nicholls, Eleni Yitbarek
Summary: This study examines the association between trust in social media and beliefs and preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey of 1008 respondents in South Africa reveals that trusting information from social media more than other sources is linked to reduced risk perception and adoption of preventive behaviors, including vaccination.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Giorgia Gon, Aron Szekely, Hattie Lowe, Marco Tosi
Summary: This study investigates hand hygiene social norms among healthcare workers and examines their predictors, as well as the potential impact of COVID-19 on these norms. The findings indicate that healthcare workers have strong social expectations, personal beliefs, punishment, and rewards regarding hand hygiene. The study also shows variations in social expectations across different occupations and age groups, with doctors having lower social expectations compared to nurses/midwives. Furthermore, the study suggests that social expectations increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Michele J. Gelfand, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Xinyue Pan, Dana Nau, Dylan Pieper, Emmy Denison, Munqith Dagher, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Chi-Yue Chiu, Mo Wang
Summary: The study found that by October 2020, countries with high cultural looseness were estimated to have higher numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths compared to countries with high cultural tightness. Furthermore, the evolutionary game theoretic model suggested that tight groups cooperate faster under threat and have higher survival rates.
LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yuki Yamada, Dominik-Borna Cepulic, Tao Coll-Martin, Stephane Debove, Guillaume Gautreau, Hyemin Han, Jesper Rasmussen, Thao P. Tran, Giovanni A. Travaglino, Andreas Lieberoth, Angelique M. Blackburn, Lois Boullu, Mila Bujic, Grace Byrne, Marjolein C. J. Caniels, Ivan Flis, Marta Kowal, Nikolay R. Rachev, Vicenta Reynoso-Alcantara, Oulmann Zerhouni, Oli Ahmed, Rizwana Amin, Sibele Aquino, Joao Carlos Areias, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Dastan Bamwesigye, Jozef Bavolar, Andrew R. Bender, Pratik Bhandari, Tuba Bircan, Huseyin Cakal, Tereza Capelos, Jiri Cenek, Brendan Ch'ng, Fang-Yu Chen, Stavroula Chrona, Carlos C. Contreras-Ibanez, Pablo Sebastian Correa, Irene Cristofori, Wilson Cyrus-Lai, Guillermo Delgado-Garcia, Eliane Deschrijver, Carlos Diaz, Ilknur Dilekler, Vilius Dranseika, Dmitrii Dubrov, Kristina Eichel, Eda Ermagan-Caglar, Rebekah Gelpi, Ruben Flores Gonzalez, Amanda Griffin, Moh Abdul Hakim, Krzysztof Hanusz, Yuen Wan Ho, Dayana Hristova, Barbora Hubena, Keiko Ihaya, Gozde Ikizer, Md. Nurul Islam, Alma Jeftic, Shruti Jha, Fernanda Perez-Gay Juarez, Pavol Kacmar, Kalina Kalinova, Phillip S. Kavanagh, Mehmet Kosa, Karolina Koszalkowska, Raisa Kumaga, David Lacko, Yookyung Lee, Antonio G. Lentoor, Gabriel A. De Leon, Shiang-Yi Lin, Samuel Lins, Claudio Rafael Castro Lopez, Agnieszka E. Lys, Samkelisiwe Mahlungulu, Tsvetelina Makaveeva, Salome Mamede, Silvia Mari, Tiago A. Marot, Liz Martinez, Dar Meshi, Debora Jeanette Mola, Sara Morales-Izquierdo, Arian Musliu, Priyanka A. Naidu, Arooj Najmussaqib, Jean C. Natividade, Steve Nebel, Jana Nezkusilova, Irina Nikolova, Manuel Ninaus, Valdas Noreika, Maria Victoria Ortiz, Daphna Hausman Ozery, Daniel Pankowski, Tiziana Pennato, Martin Pirko, Lotte Pummerer, Cecilia Reyna, Eugenia Romano, Hafize Sahin, Aybegum Memisoglu Sanli, Gulden Sayilan, Alessia Scarpaci, Cristina Sechi, Maor Shani, Aya Shata, Pilleriin Sikka, Nidhi Sinha, Sabrina Stockli, Anna Studzinska, Emilija Sungailaite, Zea Szebeni, Benjamin Tag, Mihaela Taranu, Franco Tisocco, Jarno Tuominen, Fidan Turk, Muhammad Kamal Uddin, Ena Uzelac, Sara Vestergren, Roosevelt Vilar, Austin Horng-En Wang, J. Noel West, Charles K. S. Wu, Teodora Yaneva, Yao-Yuan Yeh
Summary: The dataset was collected through the collaborative COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey, allowing for a cross-cultural study of psychological and behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated government measures. The survey includes various measures and variables, with data from 39 countries and regions.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Matthew Kearney, Marta Bornstein, Marieme Fall, Roch Nianogo, Deborah Glik, Philip Massey
Summary: This study aimed to explore COVID-19 beliefs and prevention behaviors in Senegal, a francophone West African nation. The findings showed high compliance with recommended prevention behaviors, such as mask wearing and hand hygiene. Knowledge and perceived risk of COVID-19 were influential factors in predicting prevention behaviors. Men, rural residents, and those with higher education were more likely to report prevention behaviors.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Scott C. Ratzan, Adam Palayew, Lawrence O. Gostin, Heidi J. Larson, Kenneth Rabin, Spencer Kimball, Ayman El-Mohandes
Summary: Survey data from 19 countries reveals varying attitudes towards acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine, with trust in government being linked to vaccine confidence.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Fatma Al-Saeedi, Peramaiyan Rajendran, Dnyanesh Tipre, Hassan Aladwani, Salem Alenezi, Maryam Alqabandi, Abdullah Alkhamis, Abdulmohsen Redha, Ahmed Mohammad, Fahad Ahmad, Yaaqoup Abdulnabi, Altaf Alfadhly, Danah Alrasheedi
Summary: This study investigated the impacts of COVID-19 on radiopharmacy in terms of economy, service, and research. An online survey was conducted with participation from employees of nuclear medicine and radiopharmaceutical companies. 145 medical professionals from 25 different countries participated in the study. Results showed that 57% and 34% of respondents used 2-[F-18]FDG and Tc-99m-MAA as necessary radiopharmaceuticals to determine the effects of COVID-19 on patients. The scheduling procedure for radiopharmacy laboratories was reduced by 65%, and 70% of respondents followed local regulations during the pandemic. Staff recruitment efforts decreased by 97%, negatively affecting nuclear medicine research and the radiopharmaceutical industry.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Xiaoting Chi, Gangwei Cai, Heesup Han
Summary: This study investigates how problem awareness of COVID-19, social responsibility, anticipated feelings, social norms, and sense of obligation affect travelers' attitudes toward mask-wearing, social distancing, and sanitation activities. The research also finds that psychological risk perception and gender play significant moderating roles in this process.
CURRENT ISSUES IN TOURISM
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Julianna C. Hsing, Jasmin Ma, Alejandra Barrero-Castillero, Shilpa G. Jani, Uma Palam Pulendran, Bea-Jane Lin, Monika Thomas-Uribe, C. Jason Wang
Summary: This study compared handwashing and social distancing practices in the United States, Mexico, Hong Kong (China), and Taiwan during COVID-19, finding that self-efficacy was the strongest predictor for both practices. The use of social media recruitment strategies was effective in reaching a large audience during the pandemic.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Anna Woodcock, P. Wesley Schultz
Summary: A study in fall 2020 found that only 50% of individuals were correctly wearing masks in public, and this behavior was influenced by the mask-wearing behavior of others nearby. It was discussed how social normative information could be utilized to increase mask-wearing behavior.
Article
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
G. Campus, M. Diaz Betancourt, M. G. Cagetti, R. A. Giacaman, D. J. Manton, G. V. A. Douglas, T. S. Carvalho, J. C. Carvalho, A. Vukovic, F. J. Cortes-Martinicorena, D. Bourgeois, V Machiulskiene, R. Sava-Rosianu, J. Krithikadatta, N. Sergeevna Morozova, A. M. Acevedo, A. A. Agudelo-Suarez, G. Aguirre, K. Aguirre, I Alfonso, H. A. Ghaffar, R. A. El Fadl, S. A. Al Maghlouth, T. Almerich-Torres, F. Amadori, K. Antia, E. Bajric, D. M. Barbosa-Liz, S. Ben-Tanfous, H. Bieber, S. Bhusari, S. Birch, G. Bonta, P. Bottenberg, J. J. Bruers, L. Bustillos, P. Buhrens, J. Cai, J. L. Cairoli, F. C. A. Carrer, M. B. Correa, B. Cortes-Acha, F. Carrouel, R. de Carvalho Oliveira, F. Cocco, F. Crombie, J. Csikar, D. Declerck, M. Denkovski, J. Deschner, J. Dopico-San Martin, O. Viktorovna Dudnik, W. Y. Escobar, A. Elwishahy, C. E. Fernandez, M. Fontana, A. Frattaroli Pericchi, M. Ghorbe, E. Gigineishvili, A. Garcia Quintan, J. Gray, N. Gugnani, K. Gambetta-Tessini, A. Hai-dera, M. Hopcraft, J. Huttmanna, N. Hysenaj, A. Jalal, M. Jikia, J. John, G. Kaps-Richter, T. Kerber Tedesco, S. Leon, K. A. Levin, H. Pau Lew, M. Aperecida Moreira Machado, A. Beneictovna MacLennan, J. Onome Mafeni, M. Minatel Braga, J. M. Montiel-Company, A. Mal-erb, A. Askerovich Mamedo, S. A. Mani, O. Marouane, D. Markovic, E. Paredes Martinez, N. Maroufidis, F. Medeiros Mendes, C. F. Mendez, S. Musa, A. Necibi, N. Azlida Mohd Nor, B. Tochukwu Ojukwu, N. Opdam, L. Ottolenghi, J. Owen, A. Passaro, I. F. Persoon, T. Peric, E. Pesaressi-Torres, V Philippides, S. P. Plaza-Ruiz, D. Procida Raggio, F. J. Rivas Cartagen, F. Ramos-Gomez, M. Sabashvili, G. Solis Sanchez, R. Villena Sarmiento, H. Schrader, S. Serban, R. Bairstow, A. Senn, B. Shi, C. P. C. Sim, E. Slabsinskiene, G. Spagnuolo, A. F. Squassi, O. Olufemi Taiwo, A. Thodhorjani, P. Tietler, C. M. C. Volgenant, M. H. van der Veen, Z. Vlahovic, A. Visaria, Y. Romero Uzcategui, E. Xhajanka, Q. Yan, O. Zeng, O. Zeyer, A. Zukanovic, T. G. Wolf
Summary: A global survey on dental practice during the COVID-19 outbreak found that while access to routine dental care was reduced, oral health service provision was not significantly affected. Dental professionals were identified as high-risk individuals, but their reported rates of COVID-19 infection were similar to the general population.
JOURNAL OF DENTISTRY
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mohammed Noushad, Samer Rastam, Mohammad Zakaria Nassani, Inas Shakeeb Al-Saqqaf, Mudassir Hussain, Ali Ango Yaroko, Mohammed Arshad, Abdullahi Musa Kirfi, Pradeep Koppolu, Fayez Hussain Niazi, Ali Elkandow, Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Salim Abdalla Nassar, Sami Osman Abuzied Mohammed, Nasser Hassan Abdalrady Hassan, Ghadah Salim Abusalim, Abdulaziz Samran, Anas B. Alsalhani, Amir Mohiddin Demachkia, Renata Marques de Melo, Norhayati Luddin, Adam Husein, Adnan Habib, Firas Suleyman, Hussein Ali Osman, Mohammed Sadeg Al-Awar, Mohiddin R. Dimashkieh, Lingam Amara Swapna, Ali Barakat, Ali Alqerban
Summary: Despite the existence of effective COVID-19 vaccines, disparities in vaccine distribution and acceptance between high- and low-income countries pose significant challenges to achieving population immunity. This global study aimed to investigate factors affecting COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among healthcare workers in 12 countries, based on income index, and identify potential predictors of vaccine acceptance. The results showed that healthcare workers in low- and lower-middle-income countries had considerably lower vaccine acceptance rates compared to those in upper-middle- and high-income countries, with the lowest rates observed among healthcare workers in Africa. These findings highlight the importance of implementing country-specific vaccine promotion strategies, particularly focusing on increasing vaccine supply in low- and lower-middle-income countries.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Donna L. Hartz, Sally K. Tracy, Sally Pairman, Ann Yates, Charlotte Renard, Pat Brodie, Sue Kildea
Summary: This study aimed to understand the global impact of COVID-19 from the perspective of midwives' associations. The survey found that many countries were unprepared for the severity of the infection, resulting in midwives having to make their own PPE or reuse single-use PPE. Disruption to maternity services led to changes in women's birth plans, and some maternity facilities were repurposed as COVID-19 centers. Midwifery students faced obstacles in practical placements, and their registration as midwives was delayed in many countries. Recommendations include including midwifery representation in government committees and increasing support for planned out-of-hospital birth.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Nadzirah Rosli, Elaina Rose Johar, Nursyafinaz Rosli, Nor Fazilah Abdul Hamid
Summary: This study explores the effects of anxiety, individual resilience, and conspiracy beliefs on attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines among the population of Malaysia, with a focus on Muslim individuals. The results indicate that anxiety is positively associated with vaccination attitudes, while conspiracy beliefs have a negative impact, and individual resilience is positively related to vaccination attitudes. The study also reveals differences and similarities between males and females in this regard.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Yeva Aleksanyan, Jason P. Weinman
Summary: This study using global COVID-19 data found that gender norms play a significant role in explaining the differences in male and female COVID-19 case and death rates. Women often face disadvantages in healthcare access due to gender bias and socioeconomic factors.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Caitlin Pilbeam, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Anne-Marie Martindale, Paul Atkinson, Hayley Mableson, Suzannah Lant, Tom Solomon, Sally Sheard, Nina Gobat
Summary: This study examines the impact of COVID-19-related policy decisions and guidelines on healthcare workers in the UK. The analysis reveals that the guidelines often lacked consistency in communication, failed to adequately consider contextual factors, and sometimes conflicted with the values of healthcare workers. The study emphasizes the need for healthcare policymakers to develop more flexible and acceptable guidelines for frontline healthcare workers.
QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
(2022)
Editorial Material
Communication
Wai Jia Tam, Nina Gobat, Divya Hemavathi, Dale Fisher
Summary: In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore, there was slow development of Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) with the large, diverse migrant worker communities living in high-density accommodation. By August 2020, Singapore had reported 55,661 cases of COVID-19, with migrant workers accounting for 94.6% of the cases. To maximize synergy in RCCE, a system was developed for migrant worker communities in Singapore, emphasizing proactive stakeholder engagement and participatory approaches with affected communities for effective dissemination of scientific information on COVID-19 and its prevention.
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
(2022)
Article
Management
Dean Eckles, Hossein Esfandiari, Elchanan Mossel, M. Amin Rahimian
Summary: In this study, the task of selecting k nodes in a social network to maximize the expected spread size of a diffusion is examined. The authors propose algorithms and guarantees to approximate the optimal seed set while limiting the amount of collected network information. They investigate the achievable guarantees using a sublinear influence sample size and develop a probing algorithm to find the seed set with the same approximation guarantee.
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jeni Stolow, Alyssa Lederer
Summary: This study examined students' feedback on a program planning course offered by Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The majority of students found the course valuable and provided suggestions for improvement, which the school has worked to address.
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sung-Joon Park, Hannah Brown, Kennedy Muhindo Wema, Nina Gobat, Matthias Borchert, Josepha Kalubi, Gaston Komanda, Nene Morisho
Summary: This paper examines the atmosphere of mistrust in the response to the Ebola epidemic in Eastern DRC, focusing on the concept of 'Ebola is a business' as a popular notion and analyzing its impact on mistrust. The analysis highlights the power of atmospheres in governing situations and disrupting structures of discrimination. The paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of collaboration barriers and effective epidemic responses.
CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alex Moehring, Avinash Collis, Kiran Garimella, M. Amin Rahimian, Sinan Aral, Dean Eckles
Summary: Despite the availability of safe vaccines, vaccine hesitancy poses a challenge to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Accurate information about the acceptance of vaccines can increase intentions to get vaccinated and correct individuals' underestimation of vaccine acceptance.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Immunology
Fei Fang, Peng Liu, Lei Song, Patrick Wagner, David Bartlett, Liane Ma, Xue Li, M. Amin Rahimian, George Tseng, Parmjeet Randhawa, Kunhong Xiao
Summary: This study demonstrates the clinical feasibility of proteomics profiling for FFPE biopsies using an accurate, efficient, and cost-effective platform integrated with quantitative label-free mass spectrometry analysis and a machine learning-based diagnostic model. The RF-based model achieved high accuracy for predicting TCMR and had good sensitivity and specificity when applied to transcriptome datasets.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sara Hollis, Jeni Stolow, Melissa Rosenthal, Silvia Edith Morreale, Lina Moses
Summary: This study examines the use of Go.Data during COVID-19 and explores its benefits, challenges, and opportunities for improvement. The research shows that Go.Data was a valuable tool in the response to the pandemic, but there were also challenges related to personnel and technical issues. The study highlights the importance of ongoing dialogue between WHO and implementors to ensure that Go.Data meets evolving user needs.
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Patricia L. Moravec, Avinash Collis, Nicholas Wolczynski
Summary: Manipulative content and propaganda on social media are a concern. Government-controlled social media pages can quietly encourage certain beliefs without sharing clearly false content. Facebook introduced state-controlled media labels to inform users about posts from selected governments, reducing engagement if noticed and associated with a negatively perceived country like Russia and China. However, the labels may increase engagement for positively perceived countries like Canada.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Abdullah Almaatouq, M. Amin Rahimian, Jason W. Burton, Abdulla Alhajri
Summary: This study investigates whether and under what conditions groups exhibit crowd wisdom. The findings suggest that the wisdom of crowds critically depends on the interaction between the centralization of the social influence network and the distribution of the initial individual estimates.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)