A study on whether parents’ risk images and coping attitudes towards COVID-19 affect to the relationship of trust between childcare workers and parents

Abstract

With the global epidemic of COVID-19, it has begun to have a significant impact in educational settings. In this study, we focused on nursery facilities to obtain risk images of COVID-19 as a disaster or a disease, and to examine the effect of these images on awareness of infectious disease countermeasures. We also examined whether parents who have a high awareness of infectious disease countermeasures may undermine the trust of nursery staff who are in charge of their own children, because too high an awareness of infectious disease countermeasures is not feasible in nursery facilities. As a result, the risk perception of COVID-19 improved parents’ awareness of infectious disease control measures. In addition, physical condition management positively influenced parents’ confidence in their child’s nursery staff, while limited contact and the desire to establish a network negatively influenced parents’ confidence in their child’s nursery staff.