Engaging Communities in Emerging Infectious Disease Mitigation to Improve Public Health and Safety

Barak, Michàlle E. Mor; Wu, Shinyi; Luria, Gil; Schnyder, Leslie P.; Liu, Ruotong; Nguyen, Anthony; Kaplan, Charles D.

doi:10.3201/eid3007.230932

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Engaging Communities in Emerging Infectious Disease Mitigation to Improve Public Health and Safety

7 2024
By Barak, Michàlle E. Mor ; Wu, Shinyi ; Luria, Gil ; ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid3007.230932
Source: Emerg Infect Dis. 2024; 30(7):1390-1397

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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for potent community-based tools to improve preparedness. We developed a community health-safety climate (HSC) measure to assess readiness to adopt health behaviors during a pandemic. We conducted a mixed-methods study incorporating qualitative methods (e.g., focus groups) to generate items for the measure and quantitative data from a February 2021 national survey to test reliability, multilevel construct, and predictive and nomologic validities. The 20-item HSC measure is unidimensional (Cronbach α = 0.87). All communities had strong health-safety climates but with significant differences between communities (F = 10.65; p<0.001), and HSC levels predicted readiness to adopt health-safety behaviors. HSC strength moderated relationships between HSC level and behavioral indicators; higher climate homogeneity demonstrated stronger correlations. The HSC measure can predict community readiness to adopt health-safety behaviors in communities to inform interventions before diseases spread, providing a valuable tool for public health authorities and policymakers during a pandemic.
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Adult Communicable Diseases, Emerging COVID-19 Female Health Behavior Humans Male Middle Aged Pandemics Public Health SARS-CoV-2 Surveys And Questionnaires
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Bioterrorism And Preparedness Community Health Global Health Health-safety Climate Theory Health Behaviors Information Sources Pandemic Preparedness Public Health Policies
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Emerg Infect Dis. 2024; 30(7):1390-1397
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38916575
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PMC11210660
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30
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7
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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