Worry experienced during the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) pandemic in Korea

Korea failed in its risk communication during the early stage of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak; consequently, it faced difficulties in managing MERS, while disease-related worry increased. Disease-related worry can help disease prevention and management, but can also have a de...

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Main Authors: Ro, Jun-Soo, Lee, Jin-Seok, Kang, Sung-Chan, Jung, Hye-Min
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Adults
Affective Symptoms
Age
Analysis
Anxiety
Biology and Life Sciences
Breast cancer
Care and treatment
College students
Communication
Comorbidity
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - psychology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Disease control
Disease Outbreaks
Disease prevention
Education
Emergency preparedness
Engineering and Technology
Epidemics
Female
Health aspects
Hospitals
Humans
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Mammography
Medical research
Medicine and Health Sciences
Middle Aged
Middle East respiratory syndrome
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
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Outbreaks
Pandemics
People and Places
Polls & surveys
Prevention
Psychological aspects
Public health
Regression analysis
Reliability analysis
Reliability aspects
Republic of Korea - epidemiology
Respiratory diseases
Risk communication
Risk Factors
Social Sciences
Socioeconomic Factors
Surveys
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Swine flu
Worry
Young Adult
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description Korea failed in its risk communication during the early stage of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak; consequently, it faced difficulties in managing MERS, while disease-related worry increased. Disease-related worry can help disease prevention and management, but can also have a detrimental effect. This study measured the overall level of disease-related worry during the MERS outbreak period in Korea and the influencing factors and levels of disease-related worry during key outbreak periods. The cross-sectional survey included 1,000 adults who resided in Korea. An ordinal logistic regression was performed for the overall level of MERS-related worry, and influencing factors of worry were analyzed. A reliability test was performed on the levels of MERS-related worry during key outbreak periods. The overall level of MERS-related worry was 2.44. Multivariate analysis revealed that women and respondents w very poor subjective health status had higher levels of worry. Respondents with very high stress in daily life had higher levels of worry than those who reported having little stress. The reliability test results on MERS-related worry scores during key outbreak periods showed consistent scores during each period. Level of worry increased in cases having higher perceived susceptibility and greater trust in informal information, while initial stage of outbreak was closely associated with that at later stages. These findings suggest the importance of managing the level of worry by providing timely and accurate disease-related information during the initial stage of disease outbreak.
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Breast cancer
Care and treatment
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Communication
Comorbidity
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - psychology
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Humans
Male
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Medical research
Medicine and Health Sciences
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
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Pandemics
People and Places
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Psychological aspects
Public health
Regression analysis
Reliability analysis
Reliability aspects
Republic of Korea - epidemiology
Respiratory diseases
Risk communication
Risk Factors
Social Sciences
Socioeconomic Factors
Surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
Swine flu
Worry
Young Adult
title Worry experienced during the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) pandemic in Korea
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