Protecting mass-gathering events in a pandemic with testing tracks and transparent information: an experimental study with festival guests.
Objective. To enable future open-air festivals during a pandemic, model festivals tested restricted access and behavioural rules to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmissions. However, the uptake of health-protective measures depends on informed acceptance, meaning people are more likely to follow measures if...
| Published in: | Psychology & Health Vol. 40; no. 7; pp. 1198 - 1225 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=186129600&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 186129600 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 08870446 7WK jtl: Psychology & Health issn: 08870446 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2025 vid: 40 iid: 7 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 186129600 174928548 186129600 186129600 10.1080/08870446.2024.2305644 186129600 ppf: 1198 ppct: 27 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Protecting mass-gathering events in a pandemic with testing tracks and transparent information: an experimental study with festival guests. aug: au: Rebitschek, Felix G. Eisenmann, Yvonne Krippner, Lena Neugebauer, Edmund Schirren, Clara O. Schnuppe, Kristin Hauptmann, Michael affil: Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany sug: subj: COVID-19 Pandemic Mass Gathering Adverse Effects COVID-19 Prevention and Control COVID-19 Transmission Disease Transmission Prevention and Control Health Behavior Evaluation Public Health Infection Control Methods Attitude to Health Attitude to Risk Evaluation Human Male Female Funding Source Adolescence Adult Middle Age Questionnaires Intention Self Report Holidays Communication Infection Risk Factors Outcome Assessment Risk Assessment Descriptive Statistics Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: Objective. To enable future open-air festivals during a pandemic, model festivals tested restricted access and behavioural rules to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmissions. However, the uptake of health-protective measures depends on informed acceptance, meaning people are more likely to follow measures if they understand their effectiveness and related disease risks. Design and main outcome measures. With a series of online surveys, we studied risk perceptions of 6,500 festival guests and the association of perceived effectiveness of protective behaviours with reported compliance. In a scenario-based online experiment (N = 1,958) among festival guests, we tested the effect of informing transparently about the risk-reducing potential of protective measures at festivals on the intention to attend hypothetical events. Results. We found that guests tended to overestimate infection risks while still perceiving them as low. Self-reported mask wearing and distancing at and around the festivals could not be associated with the understanding of the measures' effectiveness. However, in addition to protective measures themselves, providing transparent information about their absolute risk-reducing effect increased intentions to attend festivals that employ varying protective measures. Conclusion. Our findings suggest that the acceptance of protected festivals can be influenced by transparent information about the effectiveness of protective measures. This calls for further research on evidence-based public health communications to improve their impact. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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