Health Behavior Change During COVID-19 Pandemic

University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

Status

Completed

Conditions

Health Behavior

Treatments

Other: No intervention

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04367337

3228-1BPSYPSBEH-30

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims at investigating handwashing behavior during COVID-19 pandemic. It was hypothesized that social-cognitive and emotional predictors as well as COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates within the country would be associated with handwashing behavior in the general population of adults in 14 countries.

Full description

This observational study aims at testing the adherence to handwashing guidelines (the World Health Organization, WHO, 2020) at two measurement points, spanning 1 month. Adults from the general population in 14 countries (Poland, Australia, Canada, China, France, Gambia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Switzerland) will provide self-report data on handwashing behavior and its social-cognitive predictors (perceived effectiveness of handwashing, risk perception, outcome expectancy, self-efficacy, intention, planning, and action control), anxiety, as well as COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates within the country.

Enrollment

6,079 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

adults (from general population) who provided informed consent to participate

Exclusion criteria

younger than <18 years old