Adherence to facemask use in public places during the autumn-winter 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Greece: observational data.
Konstantinos N FountoulakisJoao BredaMarianna P ArletouAnastasios I CharalampakisMaria G KarypidouKonstantina S KotorliChristina G KoutsoudiEleftheria S LadiaCalypso A MitkaniVasiliki N MpouriAnastasia C SamaraAikaterini S StravoravdiIoannis G TsiamisAphrodite TzortziMaria A VamvakaCharikleia N ZacharopoulouPanagiotis E PrezerakosSotirios A KoupidisNikolaos K FountoulakisEva Maria TsapakisAnastasia KonstaPavlos N TheodorakisPublished in: Annals of general psychiatry (2022)
Our findings suggest that under conditions of mandatory wearing and in central locations of major cities, during walking, proper use of masks is suboptimal, but still contributes with some protection. Fear and risk perception seem to be strong factors contributing to adherence to proper mask wearing.