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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rincón Uribe, Fabio Alexis
• Godinho, Rejane Célia de Souza
• Machado, Marcos Antonio Santos
• Oliveira, Kleber Roberto da Silva Gonçalves
• Neira Espejo, Cristian Ariel
• de Sousa, Natalia Carvalho Vianna
• de Sousa, Leonardo Lucas
• Barbalho, Marcos Vinicius Monteiro
• Piani, Pedro Paulo Freire
• Pedroso, Janari da Silva
• Naing, Cho

Titel

Health knowledge, health behaviors and attitudes during pandemic emergencies: A systematic review

Ist Teil von

• PloS one, 2021-09, Vol.16 (9), p.e0256731

Ort / Verlag

United States: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• People with good health knowledge present a conceptual and objective appropriation of general and specific health topics, increasing their probability to express health protection and prevention measures. The main objective of this study was to conduct a rapid systematic review about the effects of health knowledge on the adoption of health behaviors and attitudes in populations under pandemic emergencies. A systematic review was performed according to PRISMA checklist and the Cochrane method for rapid systematic reviews. Studies searches were performed in APA PsycNet, Embase, Cochrane Library and PubMed Central. Studies published between January 2009 and June 2020 and whose primary results reported a measure of interaction between health knowledge, health attitudes and behaviors in population groups during pandemics were included. A review protocol was recorded in PROSPERO (CRD42020183347). Out of a total of 5791 studies identified in the databases, 13 met the inclusion criteria. The included studies contain a population of 26099 adults, grouped into cohorts of health workers, university students, clinical patients, and the general population. Health knowledge has an important influence on the adoption of health behaviors and attitudes in pandemic contexts. The consolidation of these preventive measures favors the consolidation of public rapid responses to infection outbreaks. Findings of this review indicate that health knowledge notably favors adoption of health behaviors and practices. Therefore, health knowledge based on clear and objective information would help them understand and adopt rapid responses to face a pandemic.