Internet Use, Risk Awareness, and Demographic Characteristics Associated With Engagement in Preventive Behaviors and Testing: Cross-Sectional Survey on COVID-19 in the United States
Internet Use, Risk Awareness, and Demographic Characteristics Associated With Engagement in Preventive Behaviors and Testing: Cross-Sectional Survey on COVID-19 in the United States
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DOI：
10.2196/19782
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发表时间：
2020-06-16
影响因子：
7.4
通讯作者：
Pan, Wenjing
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作者：
Li, Siyue;Feng, Bo;Pan, Wenjing
背景资料：在冠状病毒病期间（COVID-19）大流行期间，参与预防行为和进行病毒检测在保护人们免受新型冠状病毒感染方面发挥着至关重要的作用。目的：本研究旨在研究美国COVID-19大流行期间互联网使用、风险意识和人口统计学特征如何与参与预防行为和检测相关。方法：从2020年4月10日到2020年4月14日，亚马逊土耳其机器人进行了一项横断面调查。参与者的互联网使用情况（就接收COVID-19相关信息的程度而言），风险意识（无论是直系亲属、亲密朋友或亲戚，还是当地社区的人COVID-19检测呈阳性），人口统计数据（性别、年龄、种族、收入、教育程度、婚姻状况和就业状况），以及他们在预防行为和检测方面的参与进行了评估。结果：我们的数据包括来自美国的979份有效回复。在网上获得更多COVID-19相关健康信息的参与者报告更频繁地努力参与所有类型的预防行为：在公共场合戴口罩（比值比[OR] 1.55，95% CI 1.34-1.79，P
Background: During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, engagement in preventive behaviors and getting tested for the virus play a crucial role in protecting people from contracting the new coronavirus.Objective: This study aims to examine how internet use, risk awareness, and demographic characteristics are associated with engagement in preventative behaviors and testing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on Amazon Mechanical Turk from April 10, 2020, to April 14, 2020. Participants' internet use (in terms of the extent of receiving information pertaining to COVID-19), risk awareness (whether any immediate family members, close friends or relatives, or people in local communities tested positive for COVID-19), demographics (sex, age, ethnicity, income, education level, marital status, and employment status), as well as their engagement in preventative behaviors and testing were assessed.Results: Our data included 979 valid responses from the United States. Participants who received more COVID-19-related health information online reported more frequent effort to engage in all types of preventive behaviors: wearing a facemask in public (odds ratio [OR] 1.55, 95% CI 1.34-1.79, P