Prevalence and patterns of facemask use in marketplaces in Addis Ababa: Implications for targeted SARS-CoV-2 risk communication

Woldearegay, Amanuel Gebru

doi:10.1080/23311886.2022.2045451

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“…An observational study of 1,004 people in Vermont (US) also found that women were more inclined to wear masks than men (Beckage, Buckley, & Beckage, 2021), as did a study in New York city (US) parks (n = 1,453, Hitch et al, 2022). Data from a range of non-Western countries similarly support a gender difference in mask wearing, for example data from Argentina (n = 15,507, Freidin, Acera Martini, Senci, Duarte, & Carballo, 2022), Taiwan (n = 11,680, Chuang & Liu, 2020) and Ethiopia (n = 632, Woldearegay, 2022).…”

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Gender differences and mask wearing: an observational study on a University campus and a mini-meta-analysis

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Allsop²,

Pollet³

2022

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Research informed by evolutionary theory has suggested that, all else being equal, men are expected to take greater risks than women. This has been evidenced in a range of domains, including health prevention behaviours. In this brief paper, we observed gender differences in mask wearing at three locations on a University campus (n = 1,435). Using logistic regression and Bayes Factor analyses we found that our data do not support a gender difference in mask wearing. We supplemented our findings with a mini-meta-analyis, synthesising the gender difference reported in ten papers (n = 73,493) observing mask wearing during the COVID-19. This analysis is supportive of a weak effect whereby women are more inclined to wear a mask (OR = 1.54, 95% CI = 1.26 to 1.88). However, the mini-meta-analysis also suggested a considerable amount of heterogeneity. We call for further work to assess the factors explaining this heterogeneity in the observed gender difference in mask wearing.

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Gender differences and mask wearing: an observational study on a University campus and a mini-meta-analysis

Bainbridge¹,

Allsop²,

Pollet³

2022

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Gender differences and mask wearing: an observational study on a University campus and a mini-meta-analysis

Bainbridge¹,

Allsopp²,

Pollet³

2022

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Research informed by evolutionary theory has suggested that, all else being equal, men are expected to take greater risks than women. This has been evidenced in a range of domains, including health prevention behaviours. In this study, gender differences in mask wearing were recorded at three locations on a University campus (n = 1,435). Logistic regression and Bayes Factor analyses demonstrated that the data do not support a gender difference in mask wearing. This led us to supplement our findings with a mini-meta-analyis, synthesising the gender difference reported in ten papers (n = 73,493) observing mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This analysis is supportive of a weak effect whereby women are more inclined to wear a mask than men (OR = 1.54, 95% CI = 1.26 to 1.88). However, the mini-meta-analysis also suggested a considerable amount of heterogeneity. Our research calls for further work assessing the factors explaining this heterogeneity in the observed gender difference in mask wearing.

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Prevalence and patterns of facemask use in marketplaces in Addis Ababa: Implications for targeted SARS-CoV-2 risk communication

Cited by 2 publications

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Gender differences and mask wearing: an observational study on a University campus and a mini-meta-analysis

Gender differences and mask wearing: an observational study on a University campus and a mini-meta-analysis

Gender differences and mask wearing: an observational study on a University campus and a mini-meta-analysis

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