Health knowledge, health behaviors and attitudes during pandemic emergencies: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with good health knowledge present a conceptual and objective appropriation of general and specific health topics, increasing their probability to express health protection and prevention measures. The main objective of this study was to conduct a rapid systematic review about the effects of health knowledge on the adoption of health behaviors and attitudes in populations under pandemic emergencies.

Methods

A systematic review was performed according to PRISMA checklist and the Cochrane method for rapid systematic reviews. Studies searches were performed in APA PsycNet, Embase, Cochrane Library and PubMed Central. Studies published between January 2009 and June 2020 and whose primary results reported a measure of interaction between health knowledge, health

SUBMITTER: Rincon Uribe FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8423234 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature