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Understanding the influence of contextual factors and individual social capital on American public mask wearing in response to COVID–19
The COVID–19 pandemic poses unprecedented risks to the health and well-being of the entire population in the U.S. To control the pandemic, it is imperative for individuals to take precautionary behaviors (e.g., wearing a mask, keeping social distance, washing hands frequently, etc.). The factors tha...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7894115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33636596 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102537 |
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description | The COVID–19 pandemic poses unprecedented risks to the health and well-being of the entire population in the U.S. To control the pandemic, it is imperative for individuals to take precautionary behaviors (e.g., wearing a mask, keeping social distance, washing hands frequently, etc.). The factors that influence individual behavioral response thus warrants a close examination. Using survey data for respondents from 10 states merged with state-level data, our study represents a pioneering effort to reveal contextual and individual social capital factors that explain public mask wearing in response to COVID–19. Findings of logistic multilevel regression show that the COVID–19 death rate and political control of government at the state level along with one's social capital at the individual level altogether influence whether people decide to wear face masks. These findings contribute to the rapidly growing literature and have policy implications for mitigating the pandemic's devastating impact on the American public. |
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spelling | pubmed-78941152021-02-22 Understanding the influence of contextual factors and individual social capital on American public mask wearing in response to COVID–19 Hao, Feng Shao, Wanyun Huang, Weiwei Health Place Article The COVID–19 pandemic poses unprecedented risks to the health and well-being of the entire population in the U.S. To control the pandemic, it is imperative for individuals to take precautionary behaviors (e.g., wearing a mask, keeping social distance, washing hands frequently, etc.). The factors that influence individual behavioral response thus warrants a close examination. Using survey data for respondents from 10 states merged with state-level data, our study represents a pioneering effort to reveal contextual and individual social capital factors that explain public mask wearing in response to COVID–19. Findings of logistic multilevel regression show that the COVID–19 death rate and political control of government at the state level along with one's social capital at the individual level altogether influence whether people decide to wear face masks. These findings contribute to the rapidly growing literature and have policy implications for mitigating the pandemic's devastating impact on the American public. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-03 2021-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7894115/ /pubmed/33636596 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102537 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Hao, Feng Shao, Wanyun Huang, Weiwei Understanding the influence of contextual factors and individual social capital on American public mask wearing in response to COVID–19 |
title | Understanding the influence of contextual factors and individual social capital on American public mask wearing in response to COVID–19 |
title_full | Understanding the influence of contextual factors and individual social capital on American public mask wearing in response to COVID–19 |
title_fullStr | Understanding the influence of contextual factors and individual social capital on American public mask wearing in response to COVID–19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the influence of contextual factors and individual social capital on American public mask wearing in response to COVID–19 |
title_short | Understanding the influence of contextual factors and individual social capital on American public mask wearing in response to COVID–19 |
title_sort | understanding the influence of contextual factors and individual social capital on american public mask wearing in response to covid–19 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7894115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33636596 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102537 |
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