Adoption of Preventive Measures During the Very Early Phase of the COVID-19 Outbreak in China: National Cross-sectional Survey Study.
Joseph Tak Fai LauYanqiu YuMeiqi XinRui SheSitong LuoLijuan LiSuhua WangLe MaFang-Biao TaoJianxin ZhangJunfeng ZhaoDongsheng HuLiping LiGuohua ZhangJing GuDanhua LinHong-Mei WangYong CaiZhaofen WangHua YouGuoqing Hunull nullPublished in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2021)
University students had strong behavioral responses during the very early phase of the COVID-19 outbreak. Levels of personal prevention, especially frequent home staying and face-mask wearing, were high. Health promotion may modify cognitive factors. Some structural factors (eg, social distancing policy) might explain why the frequency of home staying was higher than that of handwashing. Other populations might have behaved similarly; however, such data were not available to us.