Compliance Trajectory and Patterns of COVID-19 Preventive Measures, Japan, 2020-2022.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 remains a global health threat. Compliance with nonpharmaceutical interventions is essential because of limited effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, emergence of highly contagious variants, and declining COVID-19 antibody titers over time. We evaluated compliance with 14 nonpharmaceutical intervention-related COVID-19 preventive behaviors, including mask wearing, ventilation, and surface sanitation, in a longitudinal study in Japan using 4 waves of Internet survey data obtained during 2020-2022. Compliance with most preventive behaviors increased or remained stable during the 2-year period, except for surface sanitation and going out behaviors; compliance with ventilation behavior substantially decreased in winter. Compliance patterns identified from latent class analysis showed th

SUBMITTER: Kusama T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461672 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature