Moore, Amanda Marie Holding, Anne Catherine Levine, Shelby Powers, Theodore Koestner, Richard
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Motivation and Emotion
Social distancing (SD) was an effective way of reducing virus transmission during the deadly and highly infectious COVID-19 pandemic. Using a prospective longitudinal design, the present study explored how the Big 5 traits relate to variations in SD in a sample of university students (n = 285), and replicated these findings using informant reports....
Okamoto, Shohei
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Journal of Transport & Health
Introduction The Japanese government declared a state of emergency (SoE) to control the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). However, the requirements of these SoE were less stringent than those in other nations. It has not been assessed whether soft containment policies were sufficiently effective in the promotion of social distancing or ...
Park, Hyung Jin Mirjalili, Reza Côté, Murray J. Lim, Gino J.
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Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
A critical component in the public health response to pandemics is the ability to determine the spread of diseases via diagnostic testing kits. Currently, diagnostic testing kits, treatments, and vaccines for the COVID-19 pandemic have been developed and are being distributed to communities worldwide, but the spread of the disease persists. In conj...
Yu, Yanqiu Lau, Mason M C Lau, Joseph T F
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
This study investigated the associations between some factors related to working from home status (WFHS) and positive/negative experiences due to social distancing and their interactions effects on depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. A random population-based telephone survey interviewed income-earning adults in the Hong Kong general ...
Rabin, Alon Dolkart, Oleg Kazum, Efi Wengier, Reut Goldstein, Yariv Maman, Eran Chechik, Ofir
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Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery
The delivery of orthopaedic care via telemedicine services has the potential to promote accessibility and decrease medical care expenses, while facilitating the control of infectious disease spreading. The purpose of this study was to assess agreement regarding diagnosis, recommended course of management and the perceived need for additional diagno...
Herbas-Torrico, Boris Christian Frank, Björn
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BMC Public Health
Background Governments have attempted to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by issuing guidelines for disease prevention behavior (e.g., wearing masks, social distancing, etc.) and by enforcing these guidelines. However, while some citizens have complied with these guidelines, others have ignored them or have even participated in large-scale protests. Th...
Lokhande, Trupti Yang, Xining Xie, Yichun Cook, Katherine Liang, Jianyuan LaBelle, Shannon Meyers, Cassidy
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Computational Urban Science
Schools across the United States and around the world canceled in-person classes beginning in March 2020 to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus, a public health emergency. Many empirical pieces of research have demonstrated that educational institutions aid students’ overall growth and studies have stressed the importance of prioritizing in-pe...
Topazian, Rachel J. Levine, Adam S. McGinty, Emma E. Barry, Colleen L. Han, Hahrie
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Preventive Medicine
Mask wearing and social distancing have been essential public health guidelines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but faced resistance from skeptical subgroups in the United States, including Republicans and evangelicals. We examined the effects of participation in ideologically heterogeneous civic associations on attitudes toward public health mea...
Hita, Marie Louise Radanielina Grégoire, Yany Lussier, Bruno Boissonneault, Simon Vandenberghe, Christian Sénécal, Sylvain
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Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Building on the health belief model (HBM), this research tests, over six months, how the exposure to COVID-related information in the media affects fear, which in turn conditions beliefs about the severity of the virus, susceptibility of getting the virus, and benefits of safety measures. These health beliefs ultimately lead to social distancing an...
Akhter, Salma Robbins, Meredith Curtis, Perry Hinshaw, Belle Wells, Ellen M.
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BMC Public Health
Background Determining factors correlated with protective measures against COVID-19 is important to improve public health response. This study describes student opinions related to university COVID-19 preventive measures. Methods In fall 2020, 643 US university students completed an online survey on perception, awareness, and adherence to COVID-19 ...
