Adherence to stay-at-home orders: awareness, implementation and difficulties of officially ordered quarantine measures in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Cologne - a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the awareness, implementation and difficulty of behavioural recommendations and their correlates in officially ordered domestic isolation and quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design

Online retrospective cohort survey conducted from 12 December 2020 to 6 January 2021 as part of the Cologne-Corona Counselling and Support for Index and Contact Persons During the Quarantine Period study.

Setting

Administrative area of the city of Cologne, Germany.

Participants

3011 infected persons (IPs) and 5822 contacts over 16 years of age who were in officially ordered domestic isolation or quarantine between 28 February 2020 and 9 December 2020. Of these, 60.4% were women.

Outcome measures

Self-developed scores were calculated based on res

SUBMITTER: Book J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9638749 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature