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Public trust in the time of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): The case of the DR Congo
Pan African Medical Journal, Vol.35
35
2020
PMCID: PMC7266479
PMID: 32528613
Web of Science ID: WOS:000616555000002
Abstract
Over the past half century, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a low-income and post-conflict country, has experienced several Ebola Virus Disease outbreaks, with different fatality rates. The DRC is currently experiencing the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Using the PEN-3 cultural model, we assessed the socio-cultural factors affecting public trust in the government and its health agencies. Results of this analysis revealed the perceptions, enablers, and nurturers that impacted public trust in the government and its health agencies among the Congolese population. Future interventions designed to address the COVID-19 in the DRC should account for these socio-cultural factors.
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- Title
- Public trust in the time of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Publication Details
- Pan African Medical Journal, Vol.35
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Pan African Medical Journal - Center for Public health Research and Information; Kenya
- Series
- 35
- Copyright
- © Guy- Lucien Whembolua et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Identifiers
- WOS:000616555000002; 99380090759906600
- Academic Unit
- Public Health; Usha Kundu, MD College of Health
- Language
- English