How Middle and High School Students Wear Their Face Masks in Classrooms and School Buildings.

ABSTRACT: In addition to other mitigation measures, face masks have been used in schools worldwide as a precondition for allowing school attendance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The quality and habits of mask wearing have, however, not been evaluated thus far, leaving uncertainty about the efficacy of this measure. It was the aim of this study to assess the accuracy of face mask wearing by children and adolescents in different school situations. In May and June 2022, students of two selected Austrian schools were asked to provide information about the different variations in wearing a face mask in different situations at school (in classrooms with or without the presence of a teacher, and in school buildings outside classrooms without the presence of a teacher). Strongly divergent results were ident

SUBMITTER: Jarnig G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9498795 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature