Institutional trust and misinformation in the response to the 2018–19 Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, DR Congo: a population-based survey

Author(s)
Vinck, P., Pham, P.N., Bindu, K.K., Bedford, J., Nilles, E.J.
Pages
7pp
Date published
01 May 2019
Publisher
Lancet Infectious Diseases
Type
Articles
Keywords
Epidemics & pandemics, Health

The current outbreak of Ebola in eastern DR Congo, beginning in 2018, emerged in a complex and violent political and security environment. Community-level prevention and outbreak control measures appear to be dependent on public trust in relevant authorities and information, but little scholarship has explored these issues. We aimed to investigate the role of trust and misinformation on individual preventive behaviours during an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD).