Influence of trust on two different risk perceptions as an affective and cognitive dimension during Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in South Korea: serial cross-sectional surveys

Jang, Won Mo; Kim, Un-Na; Jang, Deok Hyun; Jung, Hyemin; Cho, Sanghyun; Eun, Sang Jun; Lee, Jin Yong

The general characteristics of the participants are shown in Table 2 . There were no statistically significant differences between surveys except perceived economic status, affective risk perception, cognitive risk perception. Nearly half of the participants were female, aged <50 years, were educated up to high school or below, were from the affected area, showed disapproval of the president or the ruling party. Majority of the participants were employed, were in the middle economic status, metropolitan. More than half of participants were worried, but had views that epidemic will subside. Figure 1 reports how the outbreak proceeded, with three overlapping transmission periods, the timing of the five independent surveys, and the risk perception rates. Differences were investigated between affective and cognitive risk proportions throughout the epidemic periods.