Willingness to Self-Isolate When Facing a Pandemic Risk: Model, Empirical Test, and Policy Recommendations

• Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 17; no. 1; p. 197
• Main Authors: Zhang, Xiaojun, Wang, Fanfan, Zhu, Changwen, Wang, Zhiqiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 27.12.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Asian People - psychology; Asian People - statistics & numerical data; Attitude to Health; Behavior; China; Disease prevention; Education; Female; Gender; Health Policy; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Pandemics; Pandemics - statistics & numerical data; Perceptions; Quarantine - psychology; Quarantine - statistics & numerical data; Questionnaires; Risk Factors; Self-Management - methods; Surveys and Questionnaires; Swine flu; Young Adult; China; United States > US; Guangdong China; planned behavior; pandemic risk; self-isolation

Infected people are isolated to minimize the spread of pandemic diseases. Therefore, the factors related to self-isolation (SI) should not be neglected, and it is important to investigate the factors leading the infected (or possibly infected) people to choose to self-isolate. In this paper, we trie...