Imagining a Personalized Scenario Selectively Increases Perceived Risk of Viral Transmission for Older Adults.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has created a serious and prolonged public-health emergency. Older adults have been at substantially greater risk of hospitalization, ICU admission, and death due to COVID-19; as of February 2021, over 81% of COVID-19-related deaths in the U.S. occurred for people over the age of 65^1,2. Converging evidence from around the world suggests that age is the greatest risk factor for severe COVID-19 illness and for the experience of adverse health outcomes^3,4. Therefore, effectively communicating health-related risk information requires tailoring interventions to older adults' needs⁵. Using a novel informational intervention with a nationally-representative sample of 546 U.S. residents, we found that older adults reported increased perceived

SUBMITTER: Sinclair AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9387905 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature