Community Behavioral and Perceived Responses in the COVID-19 Outbreak in Afghanistan: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Sayed Hamid MousaviMohammad Hossein DelshadCecilia Acuti MartellucciDivya BhandariAkihiko OzakiFatemeh PourhajiFahimeh PourhajiSayed Mohammad Reza HosseiniRohullah RoienAbass Ali RamoziMarzia WafaeeShohra QaderiMohammad DelsozShailendra SigdelYasuhiro KoteraToyoaki SawanoKuldeep DhamaAlfonso J Rodríguez-MoralesJiwei WangTetsuya TanimotoAli Ahmad YousefiRanjit SahPublished in: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness (2021)
It appears that communities' psychological and behavioral responses were affected by the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan, especially among young Internet users. The findings gained from a timely behavioral assessment of the community might be useful to develop interventions and risk communication strategies in epidemics within and beyond COVID-19.