Trust in Physicians and Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a 50-State Survey of US Adults
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2821693
In every sociodemographic group in this survey study among 443 455 unique respondents aged 18 years or older residing in the US, trust in physicians and hospitals decreased substantially over the course of the pandemic, from 71.5% in April 2020 to 40.1% in January 2024. Individuals with lower levels of trust were less likely to have been vaccinated or received boosters for COVID-19.
So they started the survey only a few weeks after the "big lockdown" at a time when people were uncertain and frightened.
Actually, it's heartening to see that only 71.5% had trust in physicians and hospitals even back then.
The combined data included 582 634 responses across 24 survey waves, reflecting 443 455 unique respondents.
So, a fairly big sample.
The survey was developed and overseen by a consortium of academic sites, the COVID States Project, formed early in the pandemic to understand COVID-19–related attitudes and behaviors.
So, not exactly and unbiased group.
They also asked some open ended questions, and analyzed the results with AI to group into themes. Those with lowest levels of trust included the following themes in their open-ended responses:
financial motives over patient care (70 respondents [35.0%]), poor quality of care and negligence (55 respondents [27.5%]), other (39 respondents [19.5%]), influence of external entities and agendas (27 respondents [13.5%]), and discrimination and bias (9 respondents [4.5%]).
Interestingly, lower levels of trust:
were not explained by political affiliation, nor fully accounted for by trust in science, suggesting some specificity for medicine per se.
It's not just Republicans, it's not just flat-earth types. Maybe, just maybe, people don't trust doctors because they ARE NOT TRUSTWORTHY. But the group doing the study are not likely to consider THAT as a hypothesis.
Limitations included:
Trust has been recognized to be a complex construct, with one early study identifying 9 domains related to trust in physicians. More nuanced understandings of trust may require use of multi-item scales, as a recent review suggested.
Conclusions:
Whether interventions to restore trust could increase compliance with vaccination and other positive health behaviors merits further investigation.
Defining "positive health behaviours" to include "compliance with vaccination" is your problem right there, honey.
Just what kind of intervention is going to restore trust in people that were literally killing people for money?
I don't see trust returning until the medical industry is turned upside down and inside out to eliminate the souless money grubbers, and destroy the big pharma indoctrination of doctors. When they get back to healing instead of stealing they might be making some progress but even then it will be a long time before people put their faith in medical professionals again, and blind faith eliminated a lot of their sheep.
Dismantle & defund the corrupt medical, pharmaceutical & medical education system.
Start with the FDA.
The root of the evil.
And the CDC.
These actions will help enormously; but I believe it will take the dismantling of the MSM which would insure the TRUTH IS BEING TOLD TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.
Until we know they are no longer lying to us; dismantling entities will only be replaced by another group of criminals looking for $$$$$.
MSM MUST BE REPLACED BY CHANNELS THAT REPORT NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!
Any Billionaires out there willing to buy up ALL the MSM channels-fire the fake journalists - and replace them with TRUE journalists who report the truth?
Thanks! ~A
Yes, a return to the original purpose of the Smith-Mundt Act.
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I was getting weekly immunotherapy shots (thanks for the childhood vax allergies Fauci) and stopped going immediately when the shots came out. I didn't trust they weren't going to put it in everything! Haven't been to a Dr. since. Andrew Huberman and Peter Attia are as close as I get.
Werid. I just got tested as an adult and found out I have 8 allergies. Didn’t have them as a child. Thanks Fauci!
Your last sentence is golden.
I was in the 28.5% that didn’t trust them pre-plandemic. Now I trust them even less than I did back then. Way less. When the sheeple realize what’s been done to them, for decades now, that 40.1% (current) is going to plummet way down — 4% to 6% would be a fair guess.
Good breakdown. Appreciated the critical thinking, second hand.