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Niesen, Sydney Ramon, Daniel Spencer-Hwang, Rhonda Sinclair, Ryan
Published in
Interactive journal of medical research
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, a major public health goal has been reducing the spread of the virus, with particular emphasis on reducing transmission from person to person. Frequent face touching can transmit viral particles from one infected person and subsequently infect others in a public area. This raises an important c...
Liebst, Lasse S Ejbye-Ernst, Peter de Bruin, Marijn Thomas, Josephine Lindegaard, Marie R
Published in
Transboundary and emerging diseases
Most countries in the world have recommended or mandated face masks in some or all public places during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, mask use has been thought to increase people's face-touching frequency and thus risk of self-inoculation. Across two studies, we video-observed the face-touching behaviour of members of the public in Amsterdam and ...
Stefaniak, Aleksandra A. Krajewski, Piotr K. Białynicki-Birula, Rafał Nowicka, Danuta Szepietowski, Jacek C.
Published in
Frontiers in Medicine
There are limited data in the literature on the frequency of face- and mask-touching behavior as a potential vector for the self-inoculation and transmission of the novel coronavirus. In this prospective study, we assessed the facial touching behavior of 204 medical students. One hundred thirty-four subjects (65.68%) during the 15-min observation a...
Heinicke, Megan R Stiede, Jordan T Miltenberger, Raymond G Woods, Douglas W
Published in
Journal of applied behavior analysis
Habit reversal training (HRT) has been a mainstay of behavior analysts' repertoire for nearly the last 50 years. HRT has been effective in treating a host of repetitive behavior problems. In the face of the current coronavirus pandemic, HRT has practical public health importance as a possible intervention for reducing hand-to-head behaviors that in...
Perl, Ofer Mishor, Eva Ravia, Aharon Ravreby, Inbal Sobel, Noam
Published in
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
All primates, including humans, engage in self-face-touching at very high frequency. The functional purpose or antecedents of this behaviour remain unclear. In this hybrid review , we put forth the hypothesis that self-face-touching subserves self-smelling. We first review data implying that humans touch their faces at very high frequency. We then ...
