Individualism, economic development, and democracy as determinants of COVID-19 risk information on 132 government websites.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about how governments transparently communicate about COVID-19. This study conducted a content analysis of 132 government COVID-19 websites to identify the salience of health messages (i.e., perceived threat, perceived efficacy, and perceived resilience) and cross-national determinants of information provision. Multinomial logistic regression was used to estimate the relationship between country-level predictors (i.e., economic development, democracy scores, and individualism index) and information salience. The numbers of deaths, discharged patients, and daily new cases were prevalent on the main webpages. Subpages provided information about vulnerability statistics, government responses, and vaccination rates. Less than 10% of governments included messages that may instil

SUBMITTER: Tsai JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10181946 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature