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Selection of determinants of students' adherence to COVID-19 guidelines and translation into a brief intervention

BACKGROUND: When reopening universities in times of COVID-19, students still have to adhere to COVID-19 behavioral guidelines. We explored what behavioral determinants (and underlying beliefs) related to the adherence to guidelines are both relevant and changeable, as input for future interventions....

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Autores principales: Varol, Tugce, Crutzen, Rik, Schneider, Francine, Mesters, Ilse, Ruiter, Robert A.C., Kok, Gerjo, ten Hoor, Gill A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8367745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34419688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103400
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author Varol, Tugce
Crutzen, Rik
Schneider, Francine
Mesters, Ilse
Ruiter, Robert A.C.
Kok, Gerjo
ten Hoor, Gill A.
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description BACKGROUND: When reopening universities in times of COVID-19, students still have to adhere to COVID-19 behavioral guidelines. We explored what behavioral determinants (and underlying beliefs) related to the adherence to guidelines are both relevant and changeable, as input for future interventions. METHODS: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted (Oct–Nov 2020), identifying behavioral determinants (and underlying beliefs) of university students' adherence to COVID-19-guidelines, including keeping 1.5 m distance, getting tested, and isolating (N = 255). RESULTS: Attitude, perceived norm, self-efficacy, and several beliefs (e.g., risk perception beliefs ‘I am not afraid because I am young’ [r = −0.33; p < .001]; attitudinal beliefs, e.g., ‘I feel responsible for telling people to adhere to guidelines’ [r = 0.37; p < .001]; self-efficacy beliefs, e.g., ‘COVID-19-prevention guidelines are difficult to adhere to’ [r = −0.30; p < .001]) were associated with intention to adhere to guidelines, and for those beliefs there was room for improvement, making them suitable as possible intervention targets. CONCLUSIONS: Students mostly adhere to COVID-19 guidelines, but there is room for improvement. Interventions need to enhance students' adherence behavior by targeting the most relevant determinants as identified in this study. Based on these findings, a small intervention was introduced targeting the determinants of students' adherence to guidelines.
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spelling pubmed-83677452021-08-17 Selection of determinants of students' adherence to COVID-19 guidelines and translation into a brief intervention Varol, Tugce Crutzen, Rik Schneider, Francine Mesters, Ilse Ruiter, Robert A.C. Kok, Gerjo ten Hoor, Gill A. Acta Psychol (Amst) Article BACKGROUND: When reopening universities in times of COVID-19, students still have to adhere to COVID-19 behavioral guidelines. We explored what behavioral determinants (and underlying beliefs) related to the adherence to guidelines are both relevant and changeable, as input for future interventions. METHODS: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted (Oct–Nov 2020), identifying behavioral determinants (and underlying beliefs) of university students' adherence to COVID-19-guidelines, including keeping 1.5 m distance, getting tested, and isolating (N = 255). RESULTS: Attitude, perceived norm, self-efficacy, and several beliefs (e.g., risk perception beliefs ‘I am not afraid because I am young’ [r = −0.33; p < .001]; attitudinal beliefs, e.g., ‘I feel responsible for telling people to adhere to guidelines’ [r = 0.37; p < .001]; self-efficacy beliefs, e.g., ‘COVID-19-prevention guidelines are difficult to adhere to’ [r = −0.30; p < .001]) were associated with intention to adhere to guidelines, and for those beliefs there was room for improvement, making them suitable as possible intervention targets. CONCLUSIONS: Students mostly adhere to COVID-19 guidelines, but there is room for improvement. Interventions need to enhance students' adherence behavior by targeting the most relevant determinants as identified in this study. Based on these findings, a small intervention was introduced targeting the determinants of students' adherence to guidelines. The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-09 2021-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8367745/ /pubmed/34419688 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103400 Text en © 2021 The Authors 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.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103400
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