If you build it, will they come? Social, economic, and psychological determinants of COVID-19 testing decisions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The efficacy of testing and tracing programs to reduce COVID-19 transmission hinges not only on widespread access to testing, but also on the public's willingness to participate in them. To the extent that testing intentions are patterned by social determinants of health, this constitutes an understudied mechanism of disparities in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality.

Design

Using data from a representative household probability sample, the Person to Person Health Interview Study (n = 935), sociodemographic, economic, and psychological determinants of testing considerations were evaluated across six domains: treatment affordability, ability to work if positive, hospital effectiveness, symptom severity, proximity to infected, and risk of transmitting to others.

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SUBMITTER: Perry BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8279331 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature