COVID-19 health practices and attitudes in the United States: the role of trust in healthcare.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Individual-level COVID-19 vaccination and related preventive health behaviors is politically polarized in the United States. We examined whether the current polarization in COVID-19 health behavior may be explained by differences in trust in healthcare, locus of control, or insurance status.

Subject and methods

Our sample includes 553 US adults recruited on Amazon MTurk. We assessed odds ratios of currently vaccinated, or willing to be vaccinated if unvaccinated using logistic regression. We assessed count of routine changes and positive attitudes toward facemasks using negative binomial regression.

Results

Trust in healthcare was found to be an important determinant of all COVID-19 related health behavior measured in our study. Further, the effects on COVID-relat

SUBMITTER: Tabler J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9361898 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature