PMID- 36049135
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220908
LR  - 20230203
IS  - 1538-5159 (Electronic)
IS  - 0017-9078 (Linking)
VI  - 123
IP  - 4
DP  - 2022 Oct 1
TI  - Nuclear Radiation Knowledge and Anxiety Levels among Residents around a Nuclear 
      Power Plant in Liaoning Province, China.
PG  - 305-314
LID - 10.1097/HP.0000000000001597 [doi]
AB  - Awareness of radiation-related knowledge (RRK) and nuclear energy-related 
      knowledge (NERK) among residents around a nuclear power plant (NPP), as well as 
      their concerns about a NPP, were investigated. A face-to-face survey was 
      conducted among 1,775 residents within 30 km around the NPP in Liaoning Province, 
      China. A single-item Likert scale, Spearman's/Pearson's correlation coefficients, 
      Student's t-test, ANOVA, and multiple-linear regression analysis were employed. 
      Awareness of RRK and NERK among residents around the NPP was 27.7% and 36.6%, 
      respectively. The anxiety level of respondents was negatively corelated with the 
      distance from their residence to the NPP and age. Also, 55.6% of respondents 
      thought that the publicity about nuclear energy/NPPs was insufficient, and 82.7% 
      of respondents wanted to know relevant information about NPPs. Awareness of RRK 
      and NERK among residents around the NPP was relatively low, which was related to 
      education, occupation, and income. The anxiety level among residents was related 
      to distance and age. The public was eager to know about RRK and NERK. These 
      findings indicate that the publicity and education of RRK and NERK among 
      residents around the NPP should be strengthened.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 Health Physics Society.
FAU - Sun, Lu
AU  - Sun L
AD  - Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 54 Wenhua East 
      Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110015, People's Republic of China.
FAU - Qiao, Baojun
AU  - Qiao B
AD  - Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 54 Wenhua East 
      Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110015, People's Republic of China.
FAU - Chen, Zhongxing
AU  - Chen Z
AD  - Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 54 Wenhua East 
      Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110015, People's Republic of China.
FAU - Yao, Shuang
AU  - Yao S
AD  - Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 54 Wenhua East 
      Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110015, People's Republic of China.
FAU - Liu, Baochen
AU  - Liu B
AD  - Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 54 Wenhua East 
      Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110015, People's Republic of China.
FAU - Li, Di
AU  - Li D
AD  - Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 54 Wenhua East 
      Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110015, People's Republic of China.
FAU - Zhang, Zhuo
AU  - Zhang Z
AD  - Shenyang Medical College, 146 Huanghe North Street, Shenyang 110034, People's 
      Republic of China.
FAU - Cui, Yong
AU  - Cui Y
AD  - Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 54 Wenhua East 
      Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110015, People's Republic of China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220708
PL  - United States
TA  - Health Phys
JT  - Health physics
JID - 2985093R
SB  - IM
MH  - Anxiety/etiology
MH  - China
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Nuclear Energy
MH  - *Nuclear Power Plants
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
COIS- The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
EDAT- 2022/09/02 06:00
MHDA- 2022/09/09 06:00
CRDT- 2022/09/01 15:52
PHST- 2022/09/01 15:52 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/09/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/09/09 06:00 [medline]
AID - 00004032-202210000-00005 [pii]
AID - 10.1097/HP.0000000000001597 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Health Phys. 2022 Oct 1;123(4):305-314. doi: 10.1097/HP.0000000000001597. Epub 
      2022 Jul 8.