COVID-19 vaccination and changes in preventive behaviours: findings from the 2021 vaccine roll-out in Switzerland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Behavioural, environmental, social and systems interventions (BESSIs) remain important for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in addition to vaccination. However, people's adoption of BESSIs may decrease as vaccination rates increase due to reductions in the perceived threat of disease, and changes in risk perceptions of behaviours that increase the chance of infection. Thus, we examined predictors of and changes over time in reports of mask wearing and physical distancing and whether changes in mask wearing and physical distancing differed by vaccination status during the main 2021 COVID-19 vaccine roll-out period in Switzerland.

Methods

Weekly online cross-sectional surveys (26 April 2021 to 1 August 2021) among people 18-79 years old in Switzerland, N = 6308 obs

SUBMITTER: Hitchman SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10234639 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature