Measuring Italian citizens' engagement in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic containment measures: A cross-sectional study.

Guendalina GraffignaSerena BarelloMariarosaria SavareseLorenzo PalamenghiGreta CastelliniAndrea BonanomiEdoardo Lozza

Published in: PloS one (2020)

The Patient Health Engagement model (PHE) provides a useful framework for understanding how people will respond to health threats such as pandemics. Therefore, intervention studies should focus on raising their levels of engagement to increase the effectiveness of educational initiatives intended to promote preventive behaviors.

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