Psychological correlates of arbovirus preventive health behaviour.
J Public Health (Oxf)
; 43(4): e667-e674, 2021 12 10.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Current arbovirus preventive health interventions do not take social and personality variables into account. Social cognition models posit that people engage in preventive health behaviour (PHB) after an assessment of the perceived risk of disease, an analysis of potential consequences and an evaluation of self-efficacy.METHODS:
In a sample of 385 undergraduate and medical students, we examined the association between social relationships, conscientiousness and mosquito repellent use. Data were analysed in a series of stepwise regression analyses.RESULTS:
Social relationships influenced the association between conscientiousness and mosquito repellent use. As expected, perceptions of positive social relationships and conscientiousness are positively linked with mosquito repellent use. Conversely, perceptions of negative social relationships are linked to an inverse association between conscientiousness and mosquito repellent use.CONCLUSIONS:
Future interventions designed to increase perceptions of social relationships might be helpful in increasing arbovirus preventive health behaviour such as using mosquito repellents. Since the present study was concurrent correlational in nature, future research would benefit from experimental interventions designed to directly examine the effect of enhancing positive relations and social support on arbovirus preventive health behaviour.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Arbovírus
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Estudantes de Medicina
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Public Health (Oxf)
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos