Perceived severity may also not be as important as perceived susceptibility.
Trust in Informal information seems to be associated with less perceived susceptibility to health threat.
This is likely to be associated with increase perceived susceptibility, and possibly greater worry and distancing behaviour.
Finally, high levels of community uncertainty or rumour are likely to increase distancing by exacerbating perceived susceptibility and worry.
Three measures assessed perceived susceptibility and severity.
Perceived susceptibility was also relatively low (around 10% perceived susceptibility as high).
This perceived susceptibility was not strongly correlated with vaccination willingness.
Low levels of knowledge may lead to lower perceived susceptibility.
This is certainly related to effects of perceived susceptibility and severity.
The present EMs also revealed that perceived susceptibility and seriousness were low in the community.
In the final model, age and race were significantly associated with perceived susceptibility to colorectal cancer.
