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Threatening communication: a critical re-analysis and a revised meta-analytic test of fear appeal theory
Despite decades of research, consensus regarding the dynamics of fear appeals remains elusive. A meta-analysis was conducted that was designed to resolve this controversy. Publications that were included in previous meta-analyses were re-analysed, and a number of additional publications were located. The inclusion criteria were full factorial orthogonal manipulations of...
Incentives, expertise, and medical decisions: Testing the robustness of natural frequency framing
The natural frequency effect (NF effect)—whereby framing health risks using information presented as natural frequencies (NFs), instead of conditional probabilities (CPs), results in improved diagnostic problem solving—has led to the recommended use of NFs in clinical practice. This experiment tests, via incentivization of a lab-based decision, the hypothesis that the NF...
The 2013/14 winter floods and policy change: Interviews and survey data
The 2013/14 Winter Floods and Policy Change project used qualitative and quantitate methods, namely semi-structured interviews with members of the public and a telephone survey. Both methods investigated perceptions of the causes and solutions to the 2013/14 winter floods and flood risk in the UK more widely. The project investigated public attitudes surrounding the...
Open spaces and risk perception in post-earthquake Kathmandu city
The research investigates the relationship between built environment, in particular open spaces, and perception of seismic risk of people. The research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse this relationship. The comparative case study of two earthquake hit communities in Kathmandu after the 2015 earthquake was done and is the basis for this data.
Talk in Action: Towards a constructive dialogue between stakeholders on livestock-related zoonoses
Project omschrijving:De intensieve veehouderij is een controversieel onderwerp in Nederland, vooral met betrekking tot humane gezondheid. De Q-koortsepidemie heeft het onderwerp hoog op de maatschappelijke agenda gezet. De reactie van de overheid op de uitbraak heeft tot veel kritiek geleid en het vertrouwen in overheidsinstituties geen goed gedaan. Sinds 2010 is veel...
Patient and surgeon decision-making in risk-reducing mastectomy: an ethical and empirical analysis
Women who have made decisions to undergo. or not undergo, risk-reducing mastectomies, were interviewed alongside their surgeons. The original intention was to link the two interviews in the analysis. Ultimately, the interviews were considered to be more productively analysed separately, but linked analyses are provided in the data sets here. A Patient data list...
Accessing HIV post-exposure prophylaxis: gay and bisexual men in the UK describe their experiences
Detailed annotations of interviews with gay and bisexual men (not full transcripts). A full summary of the project and its findings is offered in the project description. In 2005 men completing the online version of the Gay Men's Sex Survey who said they had ever tried to get PEP were invited to take part in a 30 minute telephone interview about their experiences....
Perceptions of fishing, fire, and changes in livelihoods in Indonesia 2019
Data collection consists of transcripts of interviews conducted in two villages in Indonesia, Kereng Bangkirai and Taruna Jaya, in May 2019. In each village 10 participants were interviewed, half of these women and half men. Interview topics covered perceptions and challenges of fishing, perceptions of peatland damming projects, perceptions of changes in livelihoods (e.g....