Media Effects on Students during SARS Outbreak

Media Effects on Students during SARS Outbreak

Sheri L. Bergeron, Ana L Sánchez

A few months after the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, a sample of Canadian undergraduate university students completed a questionnaire that showed that, despite believing media coverage of the outbreak was excessive, they had little anxiety about acquiring SARS. Additionally, 69% of participants failed a SARS-specific knowledge section of the questionnaire.

2005

Canada, health communication, media, SARS, mass communication

DOI: 10.3201/eid1105.040512

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine

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