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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2023 Background Conspiracy beliefs have become widespread throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous studies have shown that endorsing conspiracy beliefs leads to lower protective guideline adherence (i.e., wearing face masks), posing a threat to public ...
Andreas Goreis +18 more
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How should public health professionals engage with lay epidemiology? [PDF]
, 2006 "Lay epidemiology" is a term used to describe the processes through which health risks are understood and interpreted by laypeople. It is seen as a barrier to public health when the public disbelieves or fails to act on public health messages.
Allmark, P. J., Tod, A.
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Arctic climate policy development: taking public beliefs into account [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 For the effective implementation of climate policy in the Arctic, public beliefs must be taken into account in its development. The research presented in this report shows that the majority are inclined to believe that climate change is occurring, where ...
Klyuchnikova Elena, Klyuchnikov Gleb
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The causal impact of local weather anomalies on beliefs about the occurrence of climate change
Environmental Research Communications, 2023 Research has demonstrated that members of the public recognize anomalous weather patterns, and that subjective perceptions of the weather are related to beliefs about the occurrence of climate change.
Deven Carlson +6 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2008 Background There is limited evidence of the influence of psychosocial factors and health beliefs on public dental patient's patterns of service use in Australia.
Spencer A John, Luzzi Liana
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Public Continuum Beliefs for Different Levels of Depression Severity
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction: The notion that depression is a disorder that moves along a continuum is well-established. Similarly, the belief in the continuity of mental illness is considered an important element in the stigma process.
Anna C. Makowski +2 more
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Stealth Democracy: Authoritarianism and Democratic Deliberation
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2018 In Stealth Democracy, Hibbing and Theiss-Morse seek to show that much of the American public desires “stealth democracy”--a democracy run like a business with little deliberation or public input.
Peter Muhlberger
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Beliefs and Attitudes of Medical Students from Public and Private Universities in Malaysia towards Individuals with HIV/AIDS [PDF]
, 2013 We describe the findings from a survey assessing the beliefs regarding testing, confidentiality, disclosure, and environment of care and attitudes towards care of people with HIV/AIDS (PLHWA), in 1020, 4th and 5th year medical students, from public and ...
Choy, K. K., Khan, S. A., Rene, T. J.
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Mental health literacy: a cross-cultural approach to knowledge and beliefs about depression, schizophrenia and generalized anxiety disorder [PDF]
, 2015 Many families worldwide have at least one member with a behavioral or mental disorder, and yet the majority of the public fails to correctly recognize symptoms of mental illness. Previous research has found that Mental Health Literacy (MHL)—the knowledge
Abdullah +81 more
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Pandemic Politics: Political Worldviews and COVID-19 Beliefs and Practices in an Unsettled Time
Socius, 2020 How do individuals form new health beliefs and act in the context of unprecedented uncertainty? Drawing on a unique data set of registered California voters collected a month into stay-at-home orders that allows for an individual-level analysis, we ...
Hana Shepherd +2 more
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