Back to Search
Start Over
Fatalism, fear, and compliance with preventive measures in COVID‐19 pandemic: A structural equation modeling analysis.
- Source :
- Public Health Nursing; Sep/Oct2021, Vol. 38 Issue 5, p770-780, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
-
Abstract
- Objectives: This study was conducted to develop and evaluate a theoretical model to explain the relationships among participation in individual and social activities, compliance with prevention guidelines, and the perception of fatalism and fear of COVID‐19. Methods: Cross‐sectional survey of 1,067 participants who were >18 years of age living in different provinces of Turkey recruited between August 15, 2020 and October 15, 2020. We used covariant structural analysis to assess the relationships of the constructs of the theoretical model. Results: Significant fits were detected for Model 1 (χ2 = 924,389, p <.001, comparative fit index or CFI = 0.944), and for Model 2 (χ2 = 2,253,751, p <.001, CFI = 0.926). The predetermination and luck subdimensions reduce the fear of COVID‐19, while the pessimism subdimension and compliance with preventive measures increase the fear. Conclusion: In public health crises such as COVID‐19, it is important to plan scientific knowledge‐based public education; take initiatives in accordance with the cultural, social, economic, religious, and local characteristics of the societies; and conduct public health studies covering the whole society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- STRUCTURAL equation modeling
COVID-19
PROFESSIONS
SAMPLE size (Statistics)
PREVENTION of communicable diseases
CROSS-sectional method
MATHEMATICAL models
EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
FEAR
PUBLIC health
GOODNESS-of-fit tests
REGRESSION analysis
RISK assessment
LEGAL compliance
THEORY
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
QUESTIONNAIRES
HEALTH behavior
FACTOR analysis
CHI-squared test
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
STATISTICAL sampling
STATISTICAL correlation
DATA analysis software
COVID-19 pandemic
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07371209
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Public Health Nursing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 152275903
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12898