Monitoring behavioural insights related to COVID-19

Betsch, Cornelia; Wieler, Lothar H.; Habersaat, Katrine Bach

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30729-7

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“…Fig. 1 shows data from a weekly cross-sectional survey with n = 6,973 German participants [approximately n = 1,000 per week; online sample, quota−representative for age × gender and federal state in Germany, April 14 to May 26, 2020; for details, see R markdown file ( 8 )] ( 9 ). At the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, mask-wearing behavior was minimal ( Fig.…”

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“… Experimental evidence shows that, independent from policies, mask wearing signals prosocial concerns ( A ), and is a social contract where noncompliant others are negatively evaluated ( B ); voluntary policies can increase stigma ( C and D ) and are perceived as less fair ( E ). Note that n 05/26 = 925 ( 9 ). Points represent mean values, and error bars represent 95% CIs.…”

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Social and behavioral consequences of mask policies during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Korn

Sprengholz

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Mandatory and voluntary mask policies may have yet unknown social and behavioral consequences related to the effectiveness of the measure, stigmatization, and perceived fairness. Serial cross-sectional data (April 14 to May 26, 2020) from nearly 7,000 German participants demonstrate that implementing a mandatory policy increased actual compliance despite moderate acceptance; mask wearing correlated positively with other protective behaviors. A preregistered experiment (n = 925) further indicates that a voluntary policy would likely lead to insufficient compliance, would be perceived as less fair, and could intensify stigmatization. A mandatory policy appears to be an effective, fair, and socially responsible solution to curb transmissions of airborne viruses.

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Social and behavioral consequences of mask policies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Betsch

Korn

Sprengholz

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…The questionnaire was adapted from existing surveys, primarily a WHO longitudinal survey on monitoring behavioural insights for use during the COVID-19 pandemic [8,33]. A subset of the WHO questions was used to allow focus on support for the predictor and outcome variables relevant to this study and limit the questionnaire to an acceptable length.…”

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“…The degree to which such health behaviours are then practised or accepted is dependent not only on such communications, but is likely to be linked to factors such as knowledge of effectiveness/perceived e cacy of behaviours, and risk perception [6,7]. It is recognised that gaining such behavioural insights during COVID-19 will be critical in ensuring that effective strategies are put into place to encourage compliance with recommended practices and manage transmission of the disease [8].…”

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Knowledge, Socio-cognitive Perceptions and the Practice of Hand Hygiene and Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study of UK University Students

Barrett

Cheung

2020

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BackgroundDuring the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and hand hygiene have been the primary means of reducing transmission in the absence of effective treatments or vaccines, but understanding of their determinants is limited. This study aimed to investigate knowledge and socio-cognitive perceptions, and their associations with such protective behaviours, in UK university students. MethodsA cross-sectional online survey of 293 students was undertaken on 13 May 2020. Survey questions addressed demographics, knowledge of the disease and effectiveness of the protective measures, risk perception, socio-cognitive perceptions (e.g. attitude, social support, and self-efficacy), habit, time factors and trust, as well as the hand hygiene and social distancing behaviours. Multiple linear regression was used to identify the strongest associations of potential determinants with behaviour.ResultsParticipants reported high levels of social distancing with 88.9 % answering “Mostly” or “Always” for every activity, but only 42.0% reporting the same for all hand hygiene activities. Knowledge of the effectiveness of each activity in preventing transmission was high, with 90.7% and 93.5% respectively identifying at least 7 of 8 hand hygiene or 9 of 10 social distancing activities correctly. Habit (β = 0.39, p <0.001) and time factors (β = 0.28, p <0.001) were the greatest contributors to unique variance in hand hygiene behaviour, followed by ethnicity (β = -0.13, p =0.014) and risk perception (β = 0.13, p = 0.016). For social distancing behaviour, the determinants were self-efficacy (β = 0.25, p <0.001), perceived advantages (β = 0.15, p = 0.022), trust in policy (β = 0.14, p = 0.026) and gender (β = -0.14, p = 0.016). Regression models explained 40% hand hygiene and 25% social distancing variance.ConclusionsThis study indicated that communications about effectiveness of hand hygiene and social distancing behaviours had been effective in terms of knowledge acquisition. However, in the light of likely second waves of COVID-19, attention to maintaining social distancing behaviour and improving hand hygiene behaviour may need to address more difficult areas of changing habits, overcoming time factors and building trust, as well as interventions to increase self-efficacy and address risk perception concerns.

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“…To address such gap, observational studies of lifestyle behaviours during the compulsory isolation are timely and clearly a necessary step for the design of rational and effective public policies. Such studies would provide the much-needed evidence to design interventions to prevent a new pandemic of psychiatric disorders and cardiometabolic comorbidities as proposed by the COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO) initiative (19). Furthermore, data collection must be fast and provide useful and reliable information in real time to health authorities, media and citizens.…”

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