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Yunpeng Xu1, Qiaolan Liu1, Jian Liang2
1Regional Social Governance Innovation Research Center, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.
Frontiers in Public Health
|August 11, 2026
Summary
Effective public health communication strategies encourage cooperation-oriented protective behaviors during emergencies. Clear information sources, content, and channels, mediated by risk perception, enhance collective resilience.
Area of Science:
- Public Health Communication
- Risk Communication
- Behavioral Science
Background:
- Recurrent public health emergencies necessitate cooperation-oriented protective behaviors for collective resilience.
- While individual behaviors are understood, the link between communication environment structure and collective benefit behaviors is less clear.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and test a communication-structure framework linking communication elements to cooperation-oriented protective behaviors.
- To examine the mediating role of risk perception and the moderating role of trust in authoritative sources.
Main Methods:
- Utilized survey data from 1,417 participants across 11 provinces in China.
- Employed statistical analysis to test the proposed communication-structure framework, mediation, and moderation.
Main Results:
- Four communication dimensions (sources, content, format, channels) positively correlated with cooperation-oriented protective behavior.
- Risk perception significantly mediated the relationship between risk communication and protective behavior.
- Trust in authoritative sources attenuated the association between information sources and risk perception ('high-trust attenuation').
Conclusions:
- The study refines the Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) by framing warning information as a structured communication environment.
- Highlights the crucial role of risk perception in appraising communication and influencing behavior.
- Demonstrates that trust in authoritative sources acts as both a facilitator and an information filter in public health communication.
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