Trust in COVID‐19 public health information
通过对454名美国成年人调查，发现对直接人际接触的信任和关注信息质量能增强应对COVID-19的自我效能，而自我超越价值观通过关注信息质量间接提升自我效能和知识水平。
Abstract Understanding the factors that influence trust in public health information is critical for designing successful public health campaigns during pandemics such as COVID ‐19. We present findings from a cross‐sectional survey of 454 US adults—243 older (65+) and 211 younger (18–64) adults—who responded to questionnaires on human values, trust in COVID ‐19 information sources, attention to information quality, self‐efficacy, and factual knowledge about COVID ‐19. Path analysis showed that trust in direct personal contacts ( B = 0.071, p = .04) and attention to information quality ( B = 0.251, p < .001) were positively related to self‐efficacy for coping with COVID ‐19. The human value of self‐transcendence, which emphasizes valuing others as equals and being concerned with their welfare, had significant positive indirect effects on self‐efficacy in coping with COVID ‐19 (mediated by attention to information quality; effect = 0.049, 95% CI 0.001–0.104) and factual knowledge about COVID ‐19 (also mediated by attention to information quality; effect = 0.037, 95% CI 0.003–0.089). Our path model offers guidance for fine‐tuning strategies for effective public health messaging and serves as a basis for further research to better understand the societal impact of COVID ‐19 and other public health crises.