experience knowledge and beliefs Flashcards
Knowledge
Facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education
Ruiz and Bell (2021) –> what made people get vaccinated against COVID19, what were the predictors of this study?
General knowledge about vaccines
Acceptance of vaccine conspiracies
Reliance on social media for COVID-19 information
Geographic location where people lived
when were people more likely to get vaccinated?
More accurate general knowledge of vaccines
Intention to get vaccinated was lower when
higher belief in conspiracy theories about vaccines and had a Preference for Social Media
what is a problem with the vaccine study?
can tell us about Intention…what about behaviour?
Hochbaum (1958) study - Did knowledge about TB motivate people to voluntarily get a chest x-ray to screen for it? method
90 standardized questions
Free responses recorded verbatim, and later coded to analyse their content
what was hochbaums sample?
Interviews conducted face-to-face with participants
Recruitment
Random sample of city residents over 25 years of age
what was peoples knowledge about TB?
97% knew it is important to start treatment early
DID GENERAL KNOWLEDGE effect whether people got tested for TB?
General Knowledge didn’t matter much!
People who knew a lot about TB: 49% voluntarily x-rayed
People who didn’t know a lot about TB:41% voluntarily x-rayed
what did matter for people to get tested against TB?
specific knowledge
Participants who stated correctly that X-rays could detect the presence of TB before a person would be aware of any symptoms:43% voluntarily x-rayed
Whereas participants who didn’t know this: 21% voluntarily x-rayed
as well as knowledge what was important for a TB xray
belief
correctly informed vs informed and accepted the info
Correctly informed
43% x-rayed
Correctly informed and accept that information
76% x-rayed
Correctly informed but don’t accept that information
30% x-rayed
for turburculis xray study what matterd most for them to get an xray
Correctly informed and accept that information
that was
who was least likely to get xray for tb?
Correctly informed but don’t accept that information
30% x-rayed
Incorrectly informed
21% x-rayed
why did more people in Cleveland get xrays?
Cleveland also had a steady public educational campaign suggesting Public education campaigns might make a big difference in behaviour
what was the hiv study researching?
Can an educational campaign reduce the spread of STIs, by changing knowledge and changing behaviour?
what was method of hiv study?
- baseline study to find out what people know about HIV
- Three sessions of interactive lectures about
- visits by outreach workers to provide advice
- posters and pamphlets about knowledge and suseptibilty
conditions of HIV research
Test Site 1: Educational Intervention
Test Site 2: Educational Intervention
Control: No Intervention
If intervention is effective, there will be a difference between - hiv study
Baseline and Evaluation
At the Test Sites
But NOT at the Control Site
results of HIV study
CSW Knowledge about AIDS and STDs was higher after the intervention (at evaluation)
Effect was larger at the Test Sites, but still somewhat present at Control
condom use after the intervention
CSW condom use in last month was higher after the intervention (i.e. at evaluation)
Only at the Test Sites (though near ceiling at the Control Site)
CSW asking/helping a client to use a condom
CSW asking/helping a client to use a condom was higher after the intervention
At All Sites (though larger effect at the Test Sites)
Pimps encouraged CSWs to use a condom more
Pimps encouraged CSWs to use a condom more often after the intervention
Only at Test Sites
conlusions of HIV study
Effects generally larger at Test Sites than Control
As predicted
But still some effects at the Control Site!
Strong evidence that the intervention was effective:
On CSW knowledge of STDs
On pimps encouraging condom use
