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Pandemic Fatigue in the Post-pandemic Era

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-Being".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (3 April 2023) | Viewed by 2879

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Prof. Dr. Yi Hui Christine Huang

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Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
Interests: strategic communication management in Chinese societies; risk communication in health and technology; crisis communication and management; relationship management and conflict resolution; cross-cultural communication

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

After two years of worldwide upheaval, the COVID-19 pandemic is settling into a long-term global health problem. Response measures and lockdowns have resulted in “pandemic fatigue,” a typical behavioral reaction to COVID-19 restrictions. Pandemic fatigue refers to a lack of motivation to engage in recommended preventive behaviors that develops over time and is influenced by a variety of emotions, experiences and perceptions.

The pandemic has triggered three types of fatigue—message fatigue and emotional fatigue at the individual level, and other fatigue at the societal level (e.g., economic and brain drain). Message fatigue includes active (reactance) and passive (inattention) message resistance. Emotional fatigue concerns the pandemic’s impact on people’s physical and mental well-being. Societal-level impacts societal systems (e.g., medical, governmental and economic systems).

Various research methods can probe this fatigue phenomenon: surveys, experiments, interviews, and computational methods. Studies can focus on specific groups of people, including children, the elderly, and deprived communities. We invite you to submit papers for a Special Issue addressing these topics, combining a high academic standard with a practical focus on pandemic fatigue.

Prof. Dr. Yi Hui Christine Huang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • pandemic fatigue
  • message fatigue
  • message reactance
  • message inattention
  • emotional fatigue
  • mental health
  • economic fatigue
  • brain-drain phenomenon
  • post-pandemic era

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Does Pandemic Fatigue Prevent Farmers’ Participation in the Rural Tourism Industry: A Comparative Study between Two Chinese Villages
by Mengyuan Qiu, Yueli Ni and Sulistyo Utomo
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010062 - 21 Dec 2022
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Rural tourism is an important income generation method for farmers post-pandemic. However, few studies have focused on how pandemic fatigue has affected their willingness to participate in rural tourism development. We conducted a quasi-experiment to test these effects using data from two Chinese [...] Read more.
Rural tourism is an important income generation method for farmers post-pandemic. However, few studies have focused on how pandemic fatigue has affected their willingness to participate in rural tourism development. We conducted a quasi-experiment to test these effects using data from two Chinese villages. Shanlian village, which was more severely affected by COVID-19, was the experimental group, while Huashu village was set as the control group. Our results reveal that both physical and mental fatigue hinder farmers’ intention to engage in rural tourism. Further, there were significant interaction effects between physical and mental fatigue on the farmers’ participation in rural tourism. For farmers with low physical fatigue, the higher their mental fatigue, the less willing they were to participate in rural development. Conversely, for the higher physical fatigue group, farmers with low levels of mental fatigue were still more willing to participate in rural tourism development. These findings reduce the current research gap concerning the relationship between pandemic fatigue and farmers’ participation in rural tourism and indicate that practitioners and policymakers should consider farmers’ fatigue management as an important factor for the sustainability of rural tourism during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Full article
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Country/Region Level Pandemic Severity Moderates the Relationships among Risk Experience, Perceived Life Satisfaction, and Psychological Distress in COVID-19
by Yi-Hui Christine Huang, Jie Sun, Ruoheng Liu, Jennifer Lau and Qinxian Cai
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(24), 16541; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416541 - 9 Dec 2022
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Scholars and communications practitioners worldwide have sought novel resilience models amid heightened rates of psychological distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined perceived life satisfaction as a determinant of resilience. Additionally, we investigated the assumption that perceived pandemic severity at the country/region [...] Read more.
Scholars and communications practitioners worldwide have sought novel resilience models amid heightened rates of psychological distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined perceived life satisfaction as a determinant of resilience. Additionally, we investigated the assumption that perceived pandemic severity at the country/region level moderates structural relationships within our risk–resilience model. Analyzing more than 34,000 valid samples from 15 countries/regions, we found that (1) perceived life satisfaction alleviated psychological distress across all 15 countries/regions; and (2) country/region-level pandemic severity moderated the relationships among COVID-19 symptom experience, perceived life satisfaction, and psychological distress. The effects of COVID-19 symptom experience and perceived life satisfaction on psychological distress were conditional. We discuss possible mechanisms behind our findings and provide practical implications for mitigating psychological distress during public health crises. Full article
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