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cord-000131-ugbwvy6j	Jones, James Holland	Early Assessment of Anxiety and Behavioral Response to Novel Swine-Origin Influenza A(H1N1)	2009-12-03		.txt	text/plain	4322	216	48	Here, we report the results from an online survey that gathered data (n = 6,249) about risk perception of the outbreak during the first few days of widespread media coverage (April 29 -May 5, 2009) of the emergence of novel swine-origin Influenza A(H1N1). To evaluate the hypothesis that respondents' affective state (subjective anxiety, fatalism about infection) predicts protective measures, we include in the model demographic (age, gender), epidemiological (household size, number of contacts, survey day), and media (source of information on the outbreak) conditioning variables. While our sampling design is subject to many of the usual criticisms of internet-based surveys and is not necessarily representative of the general population, the unparalleled immediacy, longitudinal nature, and the large number of respondents it contains make our data set unique and scientifically important for the study of the spread of information and distribution of risk perception and behavioral change during the most uncertain time (i.e. the initial phase) of an epidemic of a virus novel to the human population.	./cache/cord-000131-ugbwvy6j.txt	./txt/cord-000131-ugbwvy6j.txt