Trust and COVID precautionary measures during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from two African countries.

ABSTRACT: This study examines how trust was associated with social distancing during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Burkina Faso and Kenya. It fills gaps in previous research on trust and health by 1) simultaneously considering the relationship of individual- and aggregate-level indicators of trust, and 2) evaluating trust in local government and national government separately. Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) data on COVID-precautionary measures and individual-level trust measures were spatially linked with aggregated trust data from the Afrobarometer to create a multilevel dataset. PMA data show that women in Kenya were generally more likely to report taking COVID-precautionary measures relative to Burkinabé women, although levels of these measures were high in both countries. H

SUBMITTER: Yu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10077808 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature