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Handwashing and disinfection precautions taken by U.S. adults to prevent coronavirus disease 2019, Spring 2020
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to assess self-reported hygiene precautions taken by U.S. adults during spring 2020 to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to identify demographic characteristics associated with these hygiene precautions. RESULTS: We obtained data from Porte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7716287/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33276806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05398-3 |
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author | Brown, Laura G. Hoover, E. Rickamer Barrett, Catherine E. Vanden Esschert, Kayla L. Collier, Sarah A. Garcia-Williams, Amanda G. |
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description | OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to assess self-reported hygiene precautions taken by U.S. adults during spring 2020 to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to identify demographic characteristics associated with these hygiene precautions. RESULTS: We obtained data from Porter Novelli Public Services’s national survey, Spring ConsumerStyles, conducted March 19–April 9, 2020 among a nationally representative random sample of 6463 U.S. adults aged 18 years or older. We present data from the survey question: “What, if any, precautions are you taking to prevent coronavirus?”. Respondents replied yes or no to the following precautions: washing hands often with soap and water and disinfecting surfaces at home and work often. Most respondents reported taking hygiene-related precautions to prevent COVID-19; more respondents reported handwashing (93%) than disinfecting surfaces (74%). Men, younger respondents, those with lower income and education levels, and respondents in self-rated poor health had lower reported rates of both handwashing and disinfecting surfaces. Communications about hygiene precautions for COVID-19 prevention may need to target sub-populations with the greatest gaps in hygiene-related practices. Research identifying barriers to these practices and developing effective messaging could inform and improve these communications. |
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spelling | pubmed-77162872020-12-04 Handwashing and disinfection precautions taken by U.S. adults to prevent coronavirus disease 2019, Spring 2020 Brown, Laura G. Hoover, E. Rickamer Barrett, Catherine E. Vanden Esschert, Kayla L. Collier, Sarah A. Garcia-Williams, Amanda G. BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to assess self-reported hygiene precautions taken by U.S. adults during spring 2020 to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to identify demographic characteristics associated with these hygiene precautions. RESULTS: We obtained data from Porter Novelli Public Services’s national survey, Spring ConsumerStyles, conducted March 19–April 9, 2020 among a nationally representative random sample of 6463 U.S. adults aged 18 years or older. We present data from the survey question: “What, if any, precautions are you taking to prevent coronavirus?”. Respondents replied yes or no to the following precautions: washing hands often with soap and water and disinfecting surfaces at home and work often. Most respondents reported taking hygiene-related precautions to prevent COVID-19; more respondents reported handwashing (93%) than disinfecting surfaces (74%). Men, younger respondents, those with lower income and education levels, and respondents in self-rated poor health had lower reported rates of both handwashing and disinfecting surfaces. Communications about hygiene precautions for COVID-19 prevention may need to target sub-populations with the greatest gaps in hygiene-related practices. Research identifying barriers to these practices and developing effective messaging could inform and improve these communications. BioMed Central 2020-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7716287/ /pubmed/33276806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05398-3 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Brown, Laura G. Hoover, E. Rickamer Barrett, Catherine E. Vanden Esschert, Kayla L. Collier, Sarah A. Garcia-Williams, Amanda G. Handwashing and disinfection precautions taken by U.S. adults to prevent coronavirus disease 2019, Spring 2020 |
title | Handwashing and disinfection precautions taken by U.S. adults to prevent coronavirus disease 2019, Spring 2020 |
title_full | Handwashing and disinfection precautions taken by U.S. adults to prevent coronavirus disease 2019, Spring 2020 |
title_fullStr | Handwashing and disinfection precautions taken by U.S. adults to prevent coronavirus disease 2019, Spring 2020 |
title_full_unstemmed | Handwashing and disinfection precautions taken by U.S. adults to prevent coronavirus disease 2019, Spring 2020 |
title_short | Handwashing and disinfection precautions taken by U.S. adults to prevent coronavirus disease 2019, Spring 2020 |
title_sort | handwashing and disinfection precautions taken by u.s. adults to prevent coronavirus disease 2019, spring 2020 |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7716287/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33276806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05398-3 |
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