Background
Dr. Sarah Eitze is a health psychologist. Her dissertation focussed on vaccination decision making and the influence of sequelae knowledge, health literacy and reactance. The determinants of vaccination behaviour are a continuing research interest. In her role as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Planetary Health Behavior (IPB), Dr. Sarah Eitze complements her research with the topics of pandemic preparedness, women’s health with a special focus on the stigmatisation of endometriosis and menstrual health and patient empowerment. At the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Sarah Eitze is deputy director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Behavioral Research in Global Health (WHO CC BRIGHT).
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Areas of expertise: health psychology, health decision-making, pandemic preparedness, health knowledge, women's health
Publications
Selected Publications
- Eitze, S., Fleischmann-Struzek, C., Betsch, C., Reinhart, K., Vaccination60+ group (2018). Determinants of sepsis knowledge: A representative survey of the elderly population in Germany. Critical Care. doi: 10.1186/s13054-018-2208-5
- Habersaat, K., Betsch, C., Danchin, M., Sunstein, C., Böhm, R., Falk, A., Brewer, N.T., Omer, S.B., Scherzer, M., Sah, S., Fischer, E.F., Scheel, A.E., Fancourt, D., Kitayama, S., Dubé, E., Leask, J., Dutta, M., MacDonald, N.E., Temkina, A., Lieberoth, A., Jackson, M. Lewandowsky, S., Seale, H., Fiethe, N., Schmid, P., Gelfand, M., Korn, L., Eitze, S., Felgendreff, L. Sprengholz, P., Salvi, C., Butler, R (2020). Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition. Nature Human Behaviour. doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0906-x
- Jenny, M. A., Lehrer, L., Eitze, S., Sprengholz, P., Korn, L., Shamsrizi, P., Geiger, M., Hellmann, L., Mai, L., Maur, K., & Betsch, C. (2022). Accelerating climate protection by behavioural insights: The Planetary Health Action Survey (PACE). The Lancet Planetary Health, 6, 19. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00281-9
- Ochel, P., Eitze, S., Siegers, R., Betsch, C., & Seufert, A. (2022). Determinants of Adoption and Rejection of Protective Measures During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study in Germany’s Second Wave. Social Psychological Bulletin, 17, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.7515
- Eitze, S., Sprengholz, P., Korn, L., Shamsrizi, P., Felgendreff, L., & Betsch, C. (2024). Vicarious experiences of long COVID: A protection motivation theory analysis for vaccination intentions. Vaccine: X, 16, 100417.
- Eitze, S., Felgendreff, L., Horstkötter, N., Seefeld, L., & Betsch, C. (2024). Exploring pre-pandemic patterns of vaccine decision-making with the 5C model: results from representative surveys in 2016 and 2018. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 1205.
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