Journal article
Early public adherence with and support for stay-at-home COVID-19 mitigation strategies despite adverse life impact: a transnational cross-sectional survey study in the United States and Australia
M Czeisler, ME Howard, R Robbins, LK Barger, ER Facer-Childs, SMW Rajaratnam, CA Czeisler
BMC Public Health | Published : 2021
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Abstract
Background: Governments worldwide recommended unprecedented measures to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). As pressure mounted to scale back measures, understanding public priorities was critical. We assessed initial public adherence with and support for stay-at-home orders in nations and cities with different SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 death rates. Methods: Cross-sectional surveys were administered to representative samples of adults aged ≥18 years from regions with different SARS-CoV-2 prevalences from April 2–8, 2020. Regions included two nations [the United States (US—high prevalence) an..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This study was supported in part by the Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Austin Health; the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University; and by a gift to the Harvard Medical School from Philips Respironics. MEC was supported by a 2020 Fulbright Scholarship funded by The Kinghorn Foundation through the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. ERF-C was supported by a Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation STEM+ Business Fellowship funded through the Science and Industry Endowment Fund. LKB and CAC were supported in part by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health R01-OH-010300. CAC was supported in part by the National Institue on Aging P01-AG09975 and serves as the incumbent of an endowed professorship provided to Harvard Medical School by Cephalon, Inc. The funders were not involved in the design and conduct of the study, the collection, preparation, or interpretation of the data, or the preparation or approval of the manuscript.