Developing public transport messaging to provide crowding information during COVID-19: Application of the COM-B model and behaviour change wheel.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 outbreak meant that using public transport was potentially unsafe for risk of catching and transmitting the virus. UK anxiety is high with lockdowns preventing a normal way of life for over a year. A lack of ability to travel freely causes numerous declines in quality of life including social isolation and poor physical and mental health. People need crowding information to choose safer travel options and subdue coronavirus. To provide effective guidance, it is essential to empirically formulate messaging to create clarity and trust which can be acted upon in confidence. Behaviour Change Techniques incorporating the Behaviour Change Wheel and COM-B model have been utilised in vast areas of public health intervention development and messaging. There is consensus that public tra

SUBMITTER: Krusche A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8860671 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature