Abstract
Research on the beliefs, knowledge, and perceptions that subjects have about pandemics enrich the scenarios for the construction of integrative measures of sociocultural perspectives in risk management, in order to deal with epidemic episodes. This bibliographic review shows the studies of risk perception in pandemic scenarios developed around the world in the last eleven years (2010-2021). The approaches, tools, methodologies, and variables used in perception studies and their distribution trends were found and analyzed. The results highlight the presence of three study approaches: (i) sociocultural, (ii) social and (iii) cultural. In addition, it was shown that the variables for the study of perception are grouped into five large categories: (i) Personal information (96%), (ii) cognition about risk (92%), (iii) personal affectation of the threat (66.5%), (iv) institutional trust (75%), and (v) cultural cognition (62%). The methodological approach most used in perception studies was quantitative (73.1%). The tools identified were surveys (75.0%), semi-structured interview (15.4%), narrative review (11.5%), focus groups (9.6%) and snowball (2.0%). Finally, the distribution trends show that the largest number of studies was conducted in Asia (28.8%), followed by America and Europe (23.1%) and Africa (5.8%). It is concluded that the perception of risk in pandemic scenarios requires a sociocultural approach, to integrate social factors, vulnerabilities, and cultural biases as modelers of the perception and action of the subjects in the face of current epidemic risks.References
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Keywords
risk perception
perception approaches
cultural biases