Management of The COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Response in Lithuania: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP)

The article aims to provide an overview of the interrelationships between public knowledge, attitudes, and practical behaviours in the context of a global pandemic and the risk management measures used by the government. By reviewing some of the key trends in crisis management in Lithuania, it seeks...

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Published inBaltic journal of law & politics Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 77 - 98
Main Authors Genys, Dainius, Krikštolaitis, Ričardas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Warsaw Sciendo 01.12.2022
De Gruyter Poland
Subjects
Attitudes
attitudes and practice
Behavior
Coronaviruses
Correlation analysis
COVID-19
Demography
Government
knowledge
Lithuania
Management of crises
Pandemic management
Pandemics
Polls & surveys
Public opinion
Ratings & rankings
Risk management
Selfprotection
Social response
society
Sociodemographics
Stereotypes
Lithuania
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Summary:The article aims to provide an overview of the interrelationships between public knowledge, attitudes, and practical behaviours in the context of a global pandemic and the risk management measures used by the government. By reviewing some of the key trends in crisis management in Lithuania, it seeks to explore the response of society. The aim of the paper is to analyse the interrelationship among subjective public informativeness, attitudes, and behaviours according to different socio-demographic aspects. To meet the main objective of the paper, a representative public survey (N-804) on attitudes towards COVID-19 was conducted (at the end of 2020). The survey sought to explore individual self-protection measures, attitudes towards the dangerousness of the virus, the measures used by the government to combat the pandemic, and prevalent stereotypes and their implications on personal behaviour. The paper discusses the indicators, which are divided into separate blocks, on the basis of which the responses of the study participants are summed up and evaluated on a three-level (good, average, poor) rating scale, followed by correlation analyses on various socio-demographic parameters. The survey revealed that a higher proportion of Lithuanian society behaved responsibly, even being moderately informed and characterised by diverse attitudes.
ISSN:2029-0454
2029-0454
DOI:10.2478/bjlp-2022-0011