Mitigation behavior prior to COVID-19 vaccination availability is associated with COVID-19 infection and time to vaccination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mitigation behaviors reduce the incidence of COVID-19 infection. Determining characteristics of groups defined by mitigation behaviors compliance may be useful to inform targeted public health policies and interventions. This study aimed to identify groups of individuals according to self-reported compliance with COVID-19 mitigation behaviors, define compliance class characteristics, and explore associations between compliance classes and important study and public health outcomes.

Methods and findings

We studied 1,410 participants in the Cabarrus County COVID-19 Prevalence and Immunity longitudinal cohort study (June 2020 to December 2021) who were asked 10 questions regarding compliance with recommended COVID-19 mitigation behaviors. By Latent Class Analysis, 1,

SUBMITTER: Neighbors CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10038251 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature