Increase in people's behavioural risks for contracting COVID-19 during the 2021 New Year holiday season: longitudinal survey of the general population in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There has been no study in Japan on the predictors of risk for acquiring SARS-CoV-2 infection based on people's behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to document changes in risk behaviour during the New Year's holiday season in 2021 and to identify factors associated with high-risk behaviour for infection using a quantitative assessment tool.

Design

A longitudinal survey.

Setting

Multiphasic health check-ups for the general population in Iwate Prefecture.

Participants

Serial cross-sectional data were obtained using rapid online surveys of residents in Iwate Prefecture from 4 to 7 December 2020 (baseline survey) and from 5 to 7 February 2021 (follow-up survey). The data in those two surveys were available for a total of 974

SUBMITTER: Takahashi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8814428 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature