Worry experienced during the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) pandemic in Korea
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Auteurs : Jun-Soo Ro [Corée du Sud] ; Jin-Seok Lee [Corée du Sud] ; Sung-Chan Kang [Corée du Sud] ; Hye-Min Jung [Corée du Sud]Source :
- PLoS ONE [ 1932-6203 ] ; 2017.
Abstract
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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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.</p></sec><sec id="sec002"><title>Methods</title><p>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.</p></sec><sec id="sec003"><title>Results</title><p>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.</p></sec><sec id="sec004"><title>Conclusion</title><p>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. 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rid="aff001"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Lee</surname><given-names>Jin-Seok</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff002"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff003"><sup>3</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor001">*</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kang</surname><given-names>Sung-Chan</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff003"><sup>3</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jung</surname><given-names>Hye-Min</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff002"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff001"><label>1</label><addr-line>Department of Infectious Disease, Research Center of Infectious and Environmental Disease, Armed forces medical research institute, Daejeon, South Korea</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff002"><label>2</label><addr-line>Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff003"><label>3</label><addr-line>Institute of Health Policy and Management, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea</addr-line></aff><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="editor"><name><surname>Sun</surname><given-names>Gui-Quan</given-names></name><role>Editor</role><xref ref-type="aff" rid="edit1"></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="edit1"><addr-line>Shanxi University, CHINA</addr-line></aff><author-notes><fn fn-type="COI-statement" id="coi001"><p><bold>Competing Interests: </bold>The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con"><p><list list-type="simple"><list-item><p><bold>Conceptualization:</bold> JSL.</p></list-item><list-item><p><bold>Data curation:</bold> JSL JSR.</p></list-item><list-item><p><bold>Formal analysis:</bold> JSR.</p></list-item><list-item><p><bold>Funding acquisition:</bold> JSL.</p></list-item><list-item><p><bold>Investigation:</bold> JSL JSR.</p></list-item><list-item><p><bold>Methodology:</bold> JSR JSL SCK.</p></list-item><list-item><p><bold>Project administration:</bold> JSL.</p></list-item><list-item><p><bold>Supervision:</bold> JSL.</p></list-item><list-item><p><bold>Validation:</bold> JSR SCK.</p></list-item><list-item><p><bold>Visualization:</bold> JSR.</p></list-item><list-item><p><bold>Writing – original draft:</bold> JSR.</p></list-item><list-item><p><bold>Writing – review & editing:</bold> HMJ JSL.</p></list-item></list></p></fn><corresp id="cor001">* E-mail: <email>phealth@snu.ac.kr</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>8</day><month>3</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>12</volume><issue>3</issue><elocation-id>e0173234</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>12</day><month>8</month><year>2016</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>19</day><month>2</month><year>2017</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2017 Ro et al</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2017</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Ro et al</copyright-holder><license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link>, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="pone.0173234.pdf"></self-uri><abstract><sec id="sec001"><title>Background</title><p>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.</p></sec><sec id="sec002"><title>Methods</title><p>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.</p></sec><sec id="sec003"><title>Results</title><p>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.</p></sec><sec id="sec004"><title>Conclusion</title><p>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.</p></sec></abstract><funding-group><award-group id="award001"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="funder-id">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003625</institution-id><institution>Ministry of Health and Welfare</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Lee</surname><given-names>Jin-Seok</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><funding-statement>Ministry of Health and Welfare (Republic of Korea) has supported J-SL, grant numbers: none, URLs: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.mohw.go.kr/eng/index.jsp">http://www.mohw.go.kr/eng/index.jsp</ext-link>. 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|texte= Worry experienced during the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) pandemic in Korea
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