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Measuring the missing: Knowledge, risk perceptions and self-protection practices of COVID-19 among the Asian population in New Zealand: An online survey.

Liangni Sally LiuXiaoyun JiaAndrew ZhuGuanyu Jason RanDavid JohnstonRichard SiegertYuan GongNigel P FrenchJun Lu
Published in: Zeitschrift fur Gesundheitswissenschaften = Journal of public health (2023)
The majority of the respondents provided correct answers to the questions about the vulnerable populations, symptoms, asymptomatic transmission and potential sequelae of COVID-19; however, their understanding of the availability of a cure for, and the incubation period of COVID-19 was not consistent with the official information. The research also found that the higher perceived dangerousness of COVID-19, the better compliance to self-protection practices among the surveyed population.
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