Dr. Sarah Eitze

Background

Sarah Eitze is a doctoral student in psychology with special interests in knowledge in health decision making. She received her M.Sc. in 2016 (Thesis: Transfer of decision making strategies) and her B.A. in 2013 (Thesis: False memory effects in the DRM-Paradigm) from the University of Erfurt. Sarahs dissertation project focusses on the elderly vaccination decision making and the influence of new information and prior knowledge.

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Areas of expertise: health psychology, health decision-making, pandemic preparedness, health knowledge

Curriculum Vitae

Academic career     

• 2016 – 2022          Dissertation in Health Psychology, University of Erfurt
• 2013 – 2016          Master of Science in Psychology, University of Erfurt
• 2010 – 2013          Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of Erfurt

Employment

• 2020 – present     University of Erfurt, Research Associate (100%). Research project "COSMO - COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring"
• 2019 – 2021          University of Erfurt, Research Associate (100%): Research Project "Analyses of 5C in representative data", funded by the Federal Centre of Health Education (BZgA)
• 2018                      Member of the organization committee of the Behavioural Insights Summer School in cooperation with the WHO (Regional Office for Europe)
• 2016 – 2019          University of Erfurt, Research Associate (65%): Research project "Vaccination60+", funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research.

Recent consultancies

• 2020 – present     Consultancy for COVID-19 Behavioral Insights Studies (WHO EU/CDS)

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Publications

• 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
• Jörling, M., Eitze, S., Schmid, P., Betsch, C., Allen, J. & Böhm, R. (2022). To disclose or not to disclose? Factors related to the willingness to disclose information to a COVID-19 tracing app. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2050418
• Memenga, P., Eitze, S., Shamsrizi, P., Addo, M. M., & Betsch, C. (2022). Debunking Misinformation and Communicating Critical Events in Vaccine Trials: Experimental Evidence on Vaccination Intentions in SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. European Journal of Health Communication, 3(2), 64–96. https://doi.org/10.47368/ejhc.2022.204
• Rathgeb, C., Schillok, H., Voss, S., Coenen, M., Schulte-Körne, G., Merkel, C., Eitze, S., & Jung-Sievers, C. (in press). Emotional Situation of Children and Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: Results from the COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring Study (COSMO). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
• 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
• Betsch, C., Korn, L., Sprengholz, P., Felgendreff, L., Eitze, S., Schmid, P., & Böhm, R. (2020). Social and behavioral consequences of mask policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. P Natl Acad Sci USA, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011674117.
• Eitze, S., Heinemeier, D., Schmid-Küpke, N. & Betsch, C. (2021). Decreasing vaccine hesitancy with knowledge about sequelae. A longitudinal randomized controlled trial. Health Psychology, 40(2):77-88. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001045
• 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  
• Betsch, C., Wieler, L.H., Habersaat, K. and the COSMO group (2020). Rapid, flexible, cost-effective monitoring tool for behavioural insights related to COVID-19 across countries. The Lancet, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30729-7. 
  • The COSMO group for this paper are: Cornelia Betsch (PI), Lars Korn, Lisa Felgendreff, Sarah Eitze, Philipp Schmid, Philipp Sprengholz (University of Erfurt), Lothar H Wieler, Patrick Schmich (Robert Koch-Institute), Volker Stollorz (Science Media Center Germany), Michael Ramharter (Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine), Michael Bosnjak (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information), Saad B. Omer (Yale Institute for Global Health), Katrine Habersaat, Martha Scherzer and Cristiana Salvi (WHO Regional Office for Europe).
• Betsch, C., Böhm, R., Schmid, P., Korn, L., Steinmeyer, L., Heinemeier, D., Eitze, S. & Küpke, N.K. (2019). Impfverhalten psychologisch erklären, messen und verändern. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-019-02900-6 
• 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  Open DataOpen Material
• Weber, W., Eitze, S., Rossmann, C. Betsch, C., Hanke, R., & vaccination60+ study group. (2018). Evidenzbasierte Kampagnenplanung: Potenziale und Grenzen. In: P. Stehr, D. Heinemeier & C. Rossmann (Hrsg.), Evidenzbasierte/evidenzinformierte Gesundheitskommunikation, 19 (S. 99-111). Baden-Baden: Nomos.
• Betsch, C., Rossmann, C., Pletz, M.W., Vollmar, H.C., Freytag, A., Wichmann, O., Hanke, R., Hanke, W., Heinemeier, D., Schmid, P., Eitze, S., Weber, W., Reinhardt, A., Küpke, N.K., Forstner, C., Fleischmann-Struzek, C., Mikolajetz, A., Römhild, J., Neufeind, J., Rieck, T., Suchecka, K., Reinhart, K. (2018). Increasing influenza and pneumococcal vaccine uptake in the elderly: Study protocol for the multi-methods prospective intervention study Vaccination60+. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 885. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5787-9

Talks

• Eitze, S., Ochel, P., Siegers, R., Schmitz, J., Korn, L. & Betsch, C. (2022, September). When evidence-based educational interventions do not help to decrease vaccine hesitancy (DGPS), Hildesheim
  Eitze, S., Bühler, A., Ochel, P., & Betsch, C. (2022, August). COVID-19 quarantine behavior and expected vs. experienced stigma (EHPS), Bratislava.
• Eitze, S., Betsch, C., & COSMO study group (2022). Wahrgenommene Barrieren auf dem Weg zur COVID-19 Impfung: Qualitative und Quantitative Ergebnisse der COSMO-Studie der Universität Erfurt. Tagungsbeitrag auf dem Kongress Armut und Gesundheit 2022, digital.
• Heinemeier, D., Eitze, S., Weber, W., Reinhardt, A., Betsch, C. & Rossmann, C. (2019, November). Vaccine hesitancy in the elderly – a challenge for evidence-based health campaigns: Results from two evaluation surveys. Tagungsbeitrag auf der European Conference on Health Communication (ECHC), Zürich.
• Eitze, S., Heinemeier, D., Küpke, N., Betsch, C., & vaccination60+ group (2019, September). Boosting vaccination intentions (and behaviour?) with knowledge about sequelae. Tagungsbeitrag auf dem 14. Kongress für Gesundheitspsychologie der DGPs-Fachgruppe für Gesundheitspsychologie, Greifswald.
• Eitze, S., Betsch, C., Rossmann, C. & vaccination60+ group (2017, November). Der Einfluss von Informationen über Folgeerkrankungen auf die Schutzintention von Senioren am Beispiel der Grippeimpfung. Poster zur 2. Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe für Gesundheitskommunikation, Erfurt.
• Eitze, S., Betsch, C., & vaccination60+ group (2017, August). Der Einfluss von Folgeerkrankungen und Spätfolgen auf die Schutzintention am Beispiel der Grippeimpfung und Sepsis als Schwerstmögliche Komplikation. Tagungsbeitrag auf dem 13. Kongress für Gesundheitspsychologie der DGPs-Fachgruppe für Gesundheitspsychologie, Siegen.