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Knowledge and attitudes of us adults regarding COVID-19

This was a survey of the general non-healthcare-worker USA population regarding their knowledge and attitudes toward the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost everyone practiced social distancing. Women were significantly more likely to be worried about contracting the virus than men (65% vs. 43%, p = 0.0272)....

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Autores principales: Hogan, Christopher, Atta, Massud, Anderson, Paul, Stead, Tej, Solomon, Matthew, Banerjee, Paul, Sleigh, Bryan, Shivdat, John, Webb McAdams, Amanda, Ganti, Latha
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7604918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33138768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-020-00309-6
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author Hogan, Christopher
Atta, Massud
Anderson, Paul
Stead, Tej
Solomon, Matthew
Banerjee, Paul
Sleigh, Bryan
Shivdat, John
Webb McAdams, Amanda
Ganti, Latha
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Atta, Massud
Anderson, Paul
Stead, Tej
Solomon, Matthew
Banerjee, Paul
Sleigh, Bryan
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description This was a survey of the general non-healthcare-worker USA population regarding their knowledge and attitudes toward the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost everyone practiced social distancing. Women were significantly more likely to be worried about contracting the virus than men (65% vs. 43%, p = 0.0272). There was also a linear trend with age, with older Americans being more worried about contracting the virus. Women were also significantly likely to have received the influenza vaccine this past season compared to men (60% vs. 37%, p = .0167). Similarly, women were significantly more likely to get the influenza vaccine next season than men (77% vs. 46%, p = .0014.). Overall, across every age group, geographic part of the USA and gender, more (or the same) Americans plan on getting the influenza vaccine next season compared to last, but not fewer. This may reflect more awareness of preventative health brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-76049182020-11-02 Knowledge and attitudes of us adults regarding COVID-19 Hogan, Christopher Atta, Massud Anderson, Paul Stead, Tej Solomon, Matthew Banerjee, Paul Sleigh, Bryan Shivdat, John Webb McAdams, Amanda Ganti, Latha Int J Emerg Med Brief Research Report This was a survey of the general non-healthcare-worker USA population regarding their knowledge and attitudes toward the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost everyone practiced social distancing. Women were significantly more likely to be worried about contracting the virus than men (65% vs. 43%, p = 0.0272). There was also a linear trend with age, with older Americans being more worried about contracting the virus. Women were also significantly likely to have received the influenza vaccine this past season compared to men (60% vs. 37%, p = .0167). Similarly, women were significantly more likely to get the influenza vaccine next season than men (77% vs. 46%, p = .0014.). Overall, across every age group, geographic part of the USA and gender, more (or the same) Americans plan on getting the influenza vaccine next season compared to last, but not fewer. This may reflect more awareness of preventative health brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7604918/ /pubmed/33138768 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-020-00309-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ganti, Latha
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