Community responses during the early phase of the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong: risk perception, information exposure and preventive measures

Kin On Kwok; Kin Kit Li; Ho Hin Chan; Yuan Yuan Yi; Arthur Tang; Wan In Wei; Yeung Shan Wong

is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint . https://doi.org/10. 1101 /2020 susceptibility, and (ii) perceived severity. The first dimension was proxied by how likely one considered 130 oneself (his/her families) would be infected with COVID-19 if no preventive measure was taken. The 131 second dimension was proxied by how one rated the seriousness of symptoms caused by 132 their perceived chance of having COVID-19 cured and that of survival if infected with Subjects were also asked to rate the relative severity of COVID-19 compared with common non-134 communicable diseases (NCDs) and previous outbreaks by novel pathogens in Hong Kong. Responses Respondents were asked about the sources from which they obtained information about COVID-19, and 139 how much they trust those sources. They were also asked about the types of information that they 140 wanted to receive. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.