Predictors of compliance with COVID-19 related non-pharmaceutical interventions among university students in the United States.

ABSTRACT: The world is currently dealing with a devastating pandemic. Although growing COVID-19 case numbers, deaths, and hospitalizations are concerning, this spread is particularly alarming in the United States where polarizing opinions, changing policies, and misinformation abound. In particular, American college campuses have been a venue of rampant transmission, with concerning spillover into surrounding, more vulnerable, communities. We surveyed over 600 college students from across the United States and modeled predictors of compliance with non-pharmaceutical interventions. We identified concern with severity, constitutionalism, news exposure, and religiosity as significant positive correlates with compliance, and general trust in science as a significant negative correlate. To determine how

SUBMITTER: Shumway SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8213108 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature