Examining Australian's beliefs, misconceptions and sources of information for COVID-19: a national online survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Public cooperation to practise preventive health behaviours is essential to manage the transmission of infectious diseases such as COVID-19. We aimed to investigate beliefs about COVID-19 diagnosis, transmission and prevention that have the potential to impact the uptake of recommended public health strategies.

Design

An online cross-sectional survey.

Participants

A national sample of 1500 Australian adults with representative quotas for age and gender provided by an online panel provider.

Main outcome measure

Proportion of participants with correct/incorrect knowledge of COVID-19 preventive behaviours and reasons for misconceptions.

Results

Of the 1802 potential participants contacted, 289 did not qualify, 13 declined and 1500 participated in

SUBMITTER: Thomas R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7907616 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature