The Library
Data for Evaluating COVID-19 public health messaging in Italy : self-reported compliance and growing mental health concerns
Tools
Barari, Soubhik, Caria, Stefano, Davola, Antonio, Falco, Paolo, Fetzer, Thiemo, Fiorin, Stefano, Hensel, Lukas, Ivchenko, Andriy, Jachimowicz, Jon, King, Gary, Kraft-Todd, Gordon, Ledda, Alice, MacLennan, Mary, Mutoi, Lucian, Pagani, Claudio, Reutskaja, Elena and Roth, Christopher (2020) Data for Evaluating COVID-19 public health messaging in Italy : self-reported compliance and growing mental health concerns. [Dataset]
Research output not available from this repository.
Request-a-Copy directly from author or use local Library Get it For Me service.
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1SBQCX
Abstract
Purpose: The COVID-19 death-rate in Italy continues to climb, surpassing that in every other country. We implement one of the first nationally representative surveys about this unprecedented public health crisis and use it to evaluate the Italian government’ public health efforts and citizen responses.
Findings: (1) Public health messaging is being heard. Except for slightly lower compliance among young adults, all subgroups we studied understand how to keep themselves and others safe from the SARS-Cov-2 virus. Remarkably, even those who do not trust the government, or think the government has been untruthful a bout the crisis believe the messaging and claim to be acting in accordance. (2) The quarantine is beginning to have serious negative effects on the population’s mental health.
Policy Recommendations: Communications should move from explaining to citizens that they should stay at home to what they can do there. We need interventions that make staying following public health protocols more desirable, such as virtual social interactions, online social reading activities, classes, exercise routines, etc. — all designed to reduce the boredom of long term social isolation and to increase the attractiveness of following public health recommendations. Interventions like these will grow in importance as the crisis wears on around the world, and staying inside wears on people.
Item Type: | Dataset | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alternative Title: | Replication Data for: Evaluating COVID-19 public health messaging in Italy: self-reported compliance and growing mental health concerns | ||||||
Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
Type of Data: | Quantitative survey data | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Health promotion -- Italy, Public health -- Italy, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Italy, Mental health -- Italy | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick, Department of Economics | ||||||
Official Date: | 25 March 2020 | ||||||
Dates: |
|
||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Media of Output (format): | .R .pdf .tab | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | Harvard University | ||||||
Description: | Data record consists of 14 files: 9 raw data files in .R format, 2 pdfs containing survey information, 2 sets of tabular data and an accompanying readme file. |
||||||
Related URLs: | |||||||
Contributors: |
|
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |