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Communicating COVID-19 risk changes: Signalling with words, phrases, and messages.

Amisha M Mehta¹, Scott Murray¹, Clinton S Weeks¹

¹Faculty of Business and Law, QUT, Australia.

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Government COVID-19 messages varied by pandemic stage, influencing behavior. Negative affect, assertiveness, and risk signals impacted adaptive and non-adaptive intentions, highlighting communication strategy opportunities.

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Area of Science:

Public Health Communication
Behavioral Science
Risk Communication

Background:

Governments worldwide issued public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Messages aimed to encourage health behaviors and manage systemic risk.
Understanding message evolution across pandemic stages is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine COVID-19 messages across the early intervention and escalation stages.
To assess how message perceptions and word choices influence behavior.
To identify effective communication strategies for public health crises.

Main Methods:

An experiment with 769 Australian participants in April 2020.
A between-subject design to evaluate curated messages from two pandemic stages.
Analysis of specific words and phrases for risk, warning, and behavioral response signaling.

Main Results:

Messages differed significantly between stages in negative affect, assertiveness, and risk.
Increased negative affect, assertiveness, and risk positively correlated with adaptive behavioral intentions.
Assertiveness also increased non-adaptive intentions, while risk indication decreased them.

Conclusions:

Message characteristics like negative affect, assertiveness, and risk perception significantly influence public behavior during pandemics.
Tailoring communication strategies to distinct pandemic phases is essential for effectiveness.
Optimizing signal words and phrases can enhance biological hazard communication.