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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Dillard JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6039018 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20180710 7
Fear of infectious disease can create a variety of problems not the least of which is fear itself. An important question is how individuals attempt to manage their fear. The appearance of Zika in the U.S. presented an opportunity to examine this issue in a consequential natural context. Beginning nine days after the W.H.O. declared Zika a world health crisis, two-waves of survey data were collected from women ages 18-35 who were living in the Southern U.S. (N = 561). Most respondents (71%) used ...[more]