Caregiver worry about COVID-19 as a predictor of social mitigation behaviours and SARS-CoV-2 infection in a 12-city U.S. surveillance study of households with children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Understanding compliance with COVID-19 mitigation recommendations is critical for informing efforts to contain future infectious disease outbreaks. This study tested the hypothesis that higher levels of worry about COVID-19 illness among household caregivers would predict lower (a) levels of overall and discretionary social exposure activities and (b) rates of household SARS-CoV-2 infections.

Methods

Data were drawn from a surveillance study of households with children (N = 1913) recruited from 12 U.S. cities during the initial year of the pandemic and followed for 28 weeks (data collection: 1-May-2020 through 22-Feb-2021). Caregivers rated how much they worried about family members getting COVID-19 and subsequently reported household levels of outside-the-h

SUBMITTER: Brunwasser SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11652882 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature