Global trends and predictors of face mask usage during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guidelines and recommendations from public health authorities related to face masks have been essential in containing the COVID-19 pandemic. We assessed the prevalence and correlates of mask usage during the pandemic.

Methods

We examined a total of 13,723,810 responses to a daily cross-sectional online survey in 38 countries of people who completed from April 23, 2020 to October 31, 2020 and reported having been in public at least once during the last 7 days. The outcome was individual face mask usage in public settings, and the predictors were country fixed effects, country-level mask policy stringency, calendar time, individual sociodemographic factors, and health prevention behaviors. Associations were modeled using survey-weighted multivariable logistic regres

SUBMITTER: Badillo-Goicoechea E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8667772 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature