Data from: A One Health message about bats increases intentions to follow public health guidance on bat rabies

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: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5040Since 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.

本记录包含发表在《关于蝙蝠的一站式健康信息提升公众遵循公共卫生指导意图的狂犬病》一文中所述的基础研究数据，全文可从以下链接获取：https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5040自1960年以来，蝙蝠狂犬病变种已成为美国人类狂犬病死亡的最主要来源。提升狂犬病意识并预防人类接触狂犬病蝙蝠，至今仍是国家公共卫生的重点任务。与此同时，鉴于众多蝙蝠物种数量的下降，蝙蝠及其提供的生态系统益处的保护也日益重要。本研究采用了一种访问拦截实验（样本量N = 521），在两个美国国家公园进行，这些公园偶尔有人类与蝙蝠的互动，以检验四种不同信息在提供蝙蝠益处和不确定性信息方面对采纳狂犬病暴露预防行为的相对说服力。我们发现，在风险信息中承认蝙蝠的益处，能够促使人们更倾向于采纳推荐的狂犬病暴露预防行为，而无需对蝙蝠产生不必要的污名化。这些结果凸显了在蝙蝠狂犬病预防信息中传达蝙蝠益处的重要性，这对人类和野生动物健康均具有益处。