Factors associated with the risk perception of COVID-19 infection and severe illness: A cross-sectional study in Japan

• Main Authors: Megumi Adachi (Author), Michio Murakami (Author), Daisuke Yoneoka (Author), Takayuki Kawashima (Author), Masahiro Hashizume (Author), Haruka Sakamoto (Author), Akifumi Eguchi (Author), Cyrus Ghaznavi (Author), Stuart Gilmour (Author), Satoshi Kaneko (Author), Hiroyuki Kunishima (Author), Keiko Maruyama-Sakurai (Author), Yuta Tanoue (Author), Yoshiko Yamamoto (Author), Hiroaki Miyata (Author), Shuhei Nomura (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Understanding COVID-19 risk perception may help inform public health messaging aimed at encouraging preventive measures and improving countermeasures against the pandemic. We conducted an online survey of 29,708 Japanese adults in February 2021 and estimated the associations between COVID-19 risk pe...