{"id":6623,"date":"2020-05-04T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6623"},"modified":"2021-03-16T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:34:10","slug":"nonpharmaceutical-interventions-for-pandemic-covid-19-a-cross-sectional-investigation-of-us-general-public-beliefs-attitudes-and-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/04\/nonpharmaceutical-interventions-for-pandemic-covid-19-a-cross-sectional-investigation-of-us-general-public-beliefs-attitudes-and-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonpharmaceutical Interventions for Pandemic COVID-19 A Cross-Sectional Investigation of US General Public Beliefs Attitudes and Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"39\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kantor and Kantor perform<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a national\u00a0cross sectional\u00a0survey (N=1005) of the general US population on beliefs, attitudes, and actions regarding\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">non-pharmaceutical interventions (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NPIs<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. While 37% felt that NPIs were inconvenient,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0only 0.9% believed that NPI<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s would not reduce their personal risk of illness.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NPI adherence was associated with belief that NPI would reduce personal risk of illness (OR 3.06) and belief that they were not difficult to perform (OR 1.79).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Results show a higher degree of compliance\u00a0to\u00a0straightforward NPI recommendations, such as handwashing, compared with more onerous approaches such as mask<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and disinfecting surfaces.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kantor and Kantor. (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">May 1,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Nonpharmaceutical Interventions for Pandemic COVID-19 A Cross-Sectional Investigation of US General Public Beliefs Attitudes and Actions. Pre-print\u00a0downloaded\u00a0May\u00a04 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.26.20078618\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.26.20078618<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kantor and Kantor performed\u00a0a national\u00a0cross sectional\u00a0survey (N=1005) of the general US population on beliefs, attitudes, and actions regarding\u00a0non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). While 37% felt that NPIs were inconvenient,\u00a0only 0.9% believed that NPIs would not reduce their personal risk of illness.\u00a0NPI adherence was associated with belief that NPI would reduce personal risk of illness (OR 3.06) and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/04\/nonpharmaceutical-interventions-for-pandemic-covid-19-a-cross-sectional-investigation-of-us-general-public-beliefs-attitudes-and-actions\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-6623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6624,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions\/6624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}