科学不确定性是否会改变公众对科学治愈艾滋病毒的看法? 一个与美国成年人的信息实验
Sebastiaan Gorissen1, Yi Liao2, Jakob D Jensen2
1Department of Digital Media and Communications, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, VT, USA.
AIDS care
|February 12, 2025
概括
沟通艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究的不确定性会影响公众的支持. 消息中更高的不确定性导致对艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究的支持感知较低,影响了整体信任.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生传播 公共卫生传播
- 医学研究 感知 医学研究 感知
- 医学社会科学医学的社会科学.
背景情况:
- 有效地沟通科学进步,特别是渐进的发现,对科学传播者来说是一个挑战.
- 了解公众对科学不确定性的看法对于维持对艾滋病毒/艾滋病等关键研究领域的支持至关重要.
- 之前的研究探讨了信息框架如何影响公众对科学不确定性的看法.
研究的目的:
- 检查不同程度的沟通不确定性对公众对艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究进展的看法的影响.
- 调查感知不确定性与对艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究的支持之间的关系.
- 确定是否感知不确定性调解了沟通对研究支持的影响.
主要方法:
- 一个单因素实验,有306名参与者随机分配查看低,中或高不确定性的推文.
- 测量感知不确定性和支持艾滋病毒研究作为结果变量.
- 分析信息不确定性如何影响感知不确定性,并随后支持艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究.
主要成果:
- 强调更大的不确定性的推特导致对特定研究和更广泛的艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究领域的支持减少.
- 增加的信息不确定性与参与者之间更高的感知不确定性相关.
- 更高的感知不确定性与对艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究的支持减少有关,感知不确定性调解了这一效应.
- 不确定性的来源影响了信息的可信度.
结论:
- 在艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究中传播科学不确定性显著影响了公众的看法和支持.
- 感知不确定性起到调解作用,将不确定性传播与减少公众对艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究的支持联系起来.
- 调整沟通策略以管理感知不确定性对于维持公众参与和资助关键健康研究至关重要.
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