Prevalence and predictors of mask use on a large US university campus during the COVID-19 pandemic: A brief report

This observational study was conducted to determine the prevalence and correlates of wearing masks at a large Midwestern US university during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 7,237 individuals were observed over 24 hours. Overall mask use prevalence was 90.6% (95% confidence interval: 89.9, 91.2);...

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Autores principales: Burnell, Kenneth, Robbins, Meredith, Kulali, Sharon, Wells, Ellen M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8648375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34883161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.11.028
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description This observational study was conducted to determine the prevalence and correlates of wearing masks at a large Midwestern US university during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 7,237 individuals were observed over 24 hours. Overall mask use prevalence was 90.6% (95% confidence interval: 89.9, 91.2); mask use was significantly associated with being indoors (vs outdoors), female (vs male), and at the athletic center (vs the student union).
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spelling pubmed-86483752021-12-07 Prevalence and predictors of mask use on a large US university campus during the COVID-19 pandemic: A brief report Burnell, Kenneth Robbins, Meredith Kulali, Sharon Wells, Ellen M. Am J Infect Control Brief Report This observational study was conducted to determine the prevalence and correlates of wearing masks at a large Midwestern US university during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 7,237 individuals were observed over 24 hours. Overall mask use prevalence was 90.6% (95% confidence interval: 89.9, 91.2); mask use was significantly associated with being indoors (vs outdoors), female (vs male), and at the athletic center (vs the student union). Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-03 2021-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8648375/ /pubmed/34883161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.11.028 Text en © 2021 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 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.
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title_short Prevalence and predictors of mask use on a large US university campus during the COVID-19 pandemic: A brief report
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