September 28, 2020

Behavioural Barriers to COVID-19 Testing in Australia

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice

Keywords (Tags): public health

• [Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] In a national longitudinal survey in Australia (April-June), 49% of people strongly agreed they would get tested if they had COVID-19 symptoms and 96% agreed to some extent that they would get tested. Common barriers to testing were the belief that testing is painful (11%), not knowing how to get tested (7%), and worry about getting infected at the testing center (5%).

Bonner et al. (Sept 25, 2020). Behavioural Barriers to COVID-19 Testing in Australia. Pre-print downloaded Sept from 28 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.24.20201236