Behavioral measures to fight COVID-19: An 8-country study of perceived usefulness, adherence and their predictors.

ABSTRACT: Behavioral measures, such as the wearing of facemasks and maintaining of distance to other people, have been central in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to be important in curbing its spread. We therefore investigated their perceived usefulness, adherence and their predictors in representative online samples in eight countries (France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, U.K., U.S.). Of the 7,658 participants, 77.4% rated governmental measures (highest: Germany, lowest: France) as useful and 91.7% reported adherence to them. Adherence was lowest in Russia and Poland, where people felt particularly left alone and not well supported, and in the U.S. and Sweden, where governments showed ambivalent attitudes towards the measures. The highest adherence was reported in countr

SUBMITTER: Margraf J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7721173 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature