{"id":8545,"date":"2020-07-29T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8545"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:55:09","slug":"comparison-of-face-touching-behaviors-before-and-during-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/29\/comparison-of-face-touching-behaviors-before-and-during-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of Face-Touching Behaviors Before and During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Face mask-wearing and face-touching behaviors in the general population were analyzed using videos recorded in public areas in several countries before the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2018 to October 2019, n=4,699 individuals) and during the pandemic (February 2020 to March 2020, n=2,887 individuals). A significant increase in mask wearing was observed at locations in mainland China (from 1% to 99%), Japan (from 1% to 99%), South Korea (from 1% to 86%), and Western Europe (from 0.2% to 2%). Videos from the US showed a non-significant increase from 0.4% (1\/269) to 2% (4\/194) (p=0.17). Regression modeling showed that mask wearing was associated with a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reduction in face touching, which may prevent contact transmission of COVID-19 among the general population in public areas.<\/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\">Chen et al. (July 29, 2020). Comparison of Face-Touching Behaviors Before and During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.16924\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.16924<\/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>Face mask-wearing and face-touching behaviors in the general population were analyzed using videos recorded in public areas in several countries before the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2018 to October 2019, n=4,699 individuals) and during the pandemic (February 2020 to March 2020, n=2,887 individuals). A significant increase in mask wearing was observed at locations in mainland China&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/29\/comparison-of-face-touching-behaviors-before-and-during-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-pandemic\/\">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":[22],"class_list":["post-8545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545","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=8545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8546,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions\/8546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8545"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}