Who is afraid of ticks and tick-borne diseases? Results from a cross-sectional survey in Scandinavia.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:In Scandinavia, the distribution of ticks is expanding and tick-borne diseases constitute growing health risks. While the probability of getting a tick-borne disease after a tick bite is low, the health impacts can be large. This, as well as other characteristics of these diseases make tick-related risks difficult for laypeople to assess and perceived risk may differ substantially from actual risk. Understanding risk perceptions is important since it is the perceived risk, rather than actual risk, that determine behaviour and even more so for new and emerging risks. The aim of this study is to investigate knowledge and risk perceptions related to tick bites and the tick-borne diseases Lyme borreliosis (LB) and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). By analysing risk perceptions and know

SUBMITTER: Slunge D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6907266 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature