id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-354690-ywb9krdp Barr, Margo Pandemic influenza in Australia: Using telephone surveys to measure perceptions of threat and willingness to comply 2008-09-15 .txt text/plain 3840 187 53 Most of the existing information about a population's response to the threat of pandemics comes from research on outbreaks of the SARS coronavirus, most notably in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Canada, [2] [3] [4] [5] and on studies of risk perception and anticipated behaviours in a potential pandemic in humans from the avian influenza virus (especially the H5N1 subtype). For the hypothetical questions -that is, likelihood of pandemic influenza, likelihood that family or self affected, willingness to comply with vaccination, isolation or wearing a face mask -the responses of extremely likely and very likely were combined into the indicator of interest. Table 4 shows the indicators for pandemic influenza likely, concern for self and family, and changed life by sex, age group, demographic characteristics, and the indicators of level of psychological distress and general self-rated health status. ./cache/cord-354690-ywb9krdp.txt ./txt/cord-354690-ywb9krdp.txt