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  • 标题:Factors Associated with Increased Risk Perception of Pandemic Influenza in Australia
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  • 作者:Jennifer Jacobs ; Melanie Taylor ; Kingsley Agho
  • 期刊名称:Influenza Research and Treatment
  • 印刷版ISSN:2090-1380
  • 电子版ISSN:2090-1399
  • 出版年度:2011
  • 卷号:2011
  • DOI:10.1155/2010/947906
  • 出版社:Hindawi Publishing Corporation
  • 摘要:

    The aim of this study was to assess factors associated with increased risk perception of pandemic influenza in Australia. The sample consisted of 2081 Australian adults aged 16 years and older who completed a short three item pandemic influenza question module which was incorporated into the NSW Health Adult Population Health Survey during the first quarter of 2007. After adjusting for covariates, multivariate analysis indicated that those living in rural regions were significantly more likely to perceive a high risk that a pandemic influenza would occur, while those with poor self-rated health perceived both a high likelihood of pandemic and high concern that self/family would be directly affected were such an event to occur. Those who spoke a language other than English at home and those on low incomes and younger people (16–24 years) were significantly more likely to have changed the way they lived their lives due to the possibility of pandemic influenza, compared to those who spoke only English at home, middle-high income earners, and older age groups, respectively. This data provides an Australian population baseline against which the risk perceptions of demographic subgroups regarding the current, and potential future pandemics, can be compared and monitored.

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