No significant association of repeated messages with changes in health compliance in the COVID-19 pandemic: a registered report on the extended parallel process model.

ABSTRACT: When people are confronted with health proposals during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it has been suggested that fear of COVID-19 can serve protective functions and ensure public health compliance. However, health proposal repetition and its perceived efficacy also influence the behavior intention toward the proposal, which has not yet been confirmed in the COVID-19 context. The present study examined whether the extended parallel process model (EPPM) could be generalized to a naturalistic context like the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, we explored how repetition of a health proposal is involved with the EPPM. In this study, two groups of participants were exposed to the same health proposal related to COVID-19, where one group was exposed once and another group twice

SUBMITTER: Yang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8180189 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature