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Compliance with COVID-19-preventive behaviours among employees returning to work in the post-epidemic period

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of behaviours such as social distancing in controlling pandemics. Currently, the epidemic is under control in China and production has resumed in various industries. This study investigates the behavioural compliance and related factor...

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Autores principales: Liu, Jie, Tong, Yan, Li, Shaoqiong, Tian, Zhiqiang, He, Lu, Zheng, Jianzhong
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8860284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35189862
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12709-9
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author Liu, Jie
Tong, Yan
Li, Shaoqiong
Tian, Zhiqiang
He, Lu
Zheng, Jianzhong
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Tong, Yan
Li, Shaoqiong
Tian, Zhiqiang
He, Lu
Zheng, Jianzhong
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of behaviours such as social distancing in controlling pandemics. Currently, the epidemic is under control in China and production has resumed in various industries. This study investigates the behavioural compliance and related factors for COVID-19 prevention among employees returning to the workplace and provide strategic recommendations for improving individual-level preventive behaviour to prevent a new outbreak. METHODS: A cross-sectional study design was used. Data were gathered from returning employees in China using an online questionnaire survey, from March to May, 2020. The questionnaire covered participants’ COVID-19-related knowledge, compliance with recommended preventive behaviours, and levels of depression and anxiety. Univariate and multi-factor methods were used to analyse the data and identify factors influencing behaviour compliance. RESULTS: Of the 1300 participants completing the full survey, more than half were male (71.92%) and 61% were aged between 31 and 50 years. Six hundred and ninety-eight (53.7%) participants showed high compliance, while 602 (46.3%) showed low compliance. In models adjusted for demographic and socio-economic factors, high education level (odds ratio [OR] = 0.23, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.07–0.70), office staff (OR = 0.51, 95% CI: 0.33–0.78), higher knowledge of COVID-19 (OR = 0.74, 95% CI: 0.67–0.81), and quarantining (OR = 0.74, 95% CI: 0.57–0.96) predicted better compliance with preventive behaviours (P <  0.05), while high anxiety levels (OR = 1.55, 95% CI: 1.10–2.18) predicted lower compliance with preventive behaviours (P <  0.05). CONCLUSION: For employees returning to work during the post-COVID-19-epidemic period, compliance with recommended preventive behaviours requires improvement. Consequently, comprehensive intervention measures, including the provision of health education and psychological counselling, as well as the continuance of a strict isolation policy, could enhance such compliance. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-022-12709-9.
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spelling pubmed-88602842022-02-22 Compliance with COVID-19-preventive behaviours among employees returning to work in the post-epidemic period Liu, Jie Tong, Yan Li, Shaoqiong Tian, Zhiqiang He, Lu Zheng, Jianzhong BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of behaviours such as social distancing in controlling pandemics. Currently, the epidemic is under control in China and production has resumed in various industries. This study investigates the behavioural compliance and related factors for COVID-19 prevention among employees returning to the workplace and provide strategic recommendations for improving individual-level preventive behaviour to prevent a new outbreak. METHODS: A cross-sectional study design was used. Data were gathered from returning employees in China using an online questionnaire survey, from March to May, 2020. The questionnaire covered participants’ COVID-19-related knowledge, compliance with recommended preventive behaviours, and levels of depression and anxiety. Univariate and multi-factor methods were used to analyse the data and identify factors influencing behaviour compliance. RESULTS: Of the 1300 participants completing the full survey, more than half were male (71.92%) and 61% were aged between 31 and 50 years. Six hundred and ninety-eight (53.7%) participants showed high compliance, while 602 (46.3%) showed low compliance. In models adjusted for demographic and socio-economic factors, high education level (odds ratio [OR] = 0.23, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.07–0.70), office staff (OR = 0.51, 95% CI: 0.33–0.78), higher knowledge of COVID-19 (OR = 0.74, 95% CI: 0.67–0.81), and quarantining (OR = 0.74, 95% CI: 0.57–0.96) predicted better compliance with preventive behaviours (P <  0.05), while high anxiety levels (OR = 1.55, 95% CI: 1.10–2.18) predicted lower compliance with preventive behaviours (P <  0.05). CONCLUSION: For employees returning to work during the post-COVID-19-epidemic period, compliance with recommended preventive behaviours requires improvement. Consequently, comprehensive intervention measures, including the provision of health education and psychological counselling, as well as the continuance of a strict isolation policy, could enhance such compliance. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-022-12709-9. BioMed Central 2022-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8860284/ /pubmed/35189862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12709-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://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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Tian, Zhiqiang
He, Lu
Zheng, Jianzhong
Compliance with COVID-19-preventive behaviours among employees returning to work in the post-epidemic period
title Compliance with COVID-19-preventive behaviours among employees returning to work in the post-epidemic period
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title_fullStr Compliance with COVID-19-preventive behaviours among employees returning to work in the post-epidemic period
title_full_unstemmed Compliance with COVID-19-preventive behaviours among employees returning to work in the post-epidemic period
title_short Compliance with COVID-19-preventive behaviours among employees returning to work in the post-epidemic period
title_sort compliance with covid-19-preventive behaviours among employees returning to work in the post-epidemic period
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8860284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35189862
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12709-9
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