Key factors affecting people's unwillingness to be confined during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain: a large-scale population study.

ABSTRACT: Population confinements have been one of the most widely adopted non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented by governments across the globe to help contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. While confinement measures have been proven to be effective to reduce the number of infections, they entail significant economic and social costs. Thus, different policy makers and social groups have exhibited varying levels of acceptance of this type of measures. In this context, understanding the factors that determine the willingness of individuals to be confined during a pandemic is of paramount importance, particularly, to policy and decision-makers. In this paper, we study the factors that influence the unwillingness to be confined during the COVID-19 pandemic by the means of a large-sc

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Garcia M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8452645 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature