Promoting higher social distancing and stay-at-home decisions during COVID-19: The underlying conflict between public health and the economy.

ABSTRACT: Social distancing and stay-at-home orders were implemented as a quick response to the public health crisis created by COVID-19. However, these measures led to competing concerns for public health versus the wellbeing of the economy during the pandemic. This drove polarized views and attitudes towards these measures in the US that threatened their effectiveness in controlling the spread of infections. Our study addresses this point by investigating uptake of messaging treatments that highlight the health risks of COVID-19. We also investigate how priming economic risk of COVID-19 affects responsiveness to the health information messaging. A sample of 1200 US respondents were randomly assigned to a control and four messaging treatments that included information about risks of COVID-19 on own

SUBMITTER: Kassas B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9759684 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature