Public Engagement with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)
- Abstract
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This mixed method study investigated public engagement with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The growing social scientific literature on public engagement with emerging infectious diseases provided the context. Such engagement can range from anxious, alarmist responses, to more distancing reactions in which ‘risk groups’ are invoked and the sense of invulnerability and equanimity of those not belonging to such groups maintained.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Public engagement with MRSA, public understanding of emerging infectious disease, the interplay between media and lay understandings of emerging infectious diseases, impact of MRSA on people's reported thoughts, feelings and practices pertaining to hospital attendance, hygiene and antibiotic use.
- Variables
- http://www.data-archive.ac.[…]&class=0&from=sn#gs
- Keywords
- Greater London, access to information, age, antibiotics, attitudes, bacterial and virus diseases, care standards, cleaning, cleaning agents, cleaning services, dissemination of information, employees, ethnic groups, fear, foreign workers, gender, health behaviour, health care costs, health expenditure, health policy, health priorities, health professionals, health promotion and education, health risks, hospital services, information sources, information transfer, mass media, mass media bias, mass media coverage, medicinal drugs, MRSA, newspaper readership, nurses, nursing care, occupations, patients, personal hygiene, political allegiance, press, private health services, public health, qualifications, safety and security measures, self-employed, state health services, subcontracting, supervisory status, washing facilities
- Identifier Variables
- N/A
- Area of Health System
- Public health
- Disease Area
- MRSA
- Data Available
- Risk behaviours
- Data collecting organization (s)
- University College London. Department of Psychology and Imperial College London. Faculty of Medicine
- Data Type
- Survey (cross-sectional)
- National/Regional
- Regional
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2006, 2007
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
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Adults residing in Greater London in 2006-2007, where half had at least one overnight stay in a hospital within the 12 months prior to the interview. 60 cases.
- Availability
- ESDS Qualidata, UK Data Archive
- Conditions of Access
- Free registration access
- Link
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/snDescription.asp?sn=6010
- Contact
- qualidata@esds.ac.uk