10.25440/smu.12062937.v1
LU Hang
LU
Hang
Katherine A. MCCOMAS
Katherine A.
MCCOMAS
Danielle E. BUTTKE
Danielle E.
BUTTKE
Sungjong ROH
Sungjong
ROH
Margaret A. WILD
Margaret A.
WILD
Data from: A One Health message about bats increases intentions to follow public health guidance on bat rabies
SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
2016
Animals
Wild Animals
Rabies
Chiroptera
Conservation of Natural Resources
Female
Health Knowledge
Attitudes
Humans
United States
Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
Health Promotion
Health Economics
2016-05-01 00:00:00
Dataset
https://researchdata.smu.edu.sg/articles/dataset/Data_from_A_One_Health_message_about_bats_increases_intentions_to_follow_public_health_guidance_on_bat_rabies/12062937
<p>This record contains the underlying research data for the publication "A One Health message about bats increases intentions to follow public health guidance on bat rabies" and the full-text is available from: <a href="https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5040">https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5040</a></p><p>Since 1960, bat rabies variants have become the greatest source of human rabies deaths in the United States. Improving rabies awareness and preventing human exposure to rabid bats remains a national public health priority today. Concurrently, conservation of bats and the ecosystem benefits they provide is of increasing importance due to declining populations of many bat species. This study used a visitor-intercept experiment (N = 521) in two U.S. national parks where human and bat interactions occur on an occasional basis to examine the relative persuasiveness of four messages differing in the provision of benefit and uncertainty information on intentions to adopt a rabies exposure prevention behavior. We found that acknowledging benefits of bats in a risk message led to greater intentions to adopt the recommended rabies exposure prevention behavior without unnecessarily stigmatizing bats. These results signify the importance of communicating benefits of bats in bat rabies prevention messages to benefit both human and wildlife health.</p>