Media Effects on Students during SARS Outbreak
subject: Canada, health communication, media, SARS, mass communication
description: 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.
creator: Sheri L. Bergeron, Ana L Sánchez
source: Emerging Infectious Diseases
publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
date: 2005
language: EN
identifier: DOI: 10.3201/eid1105.040512
coverage: Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine