COVID-19: Developing evidence-based messages to encourage preventive health behaviours

诸如个人的健康信念、社会支持、文化等变量影响采取健康行为的可能性。因此，在旨在鼓励预防行为（如洗手和保持社交距离）的任何公共卫生信息中，都需要处理这些变量。在大流行时期，如果不遵守某些行为，就会危及生命，精心设计公共卫生信息就变得更加重要。为了帮助公共卫生官员设计有效的信息，我们需要确定与每种预防行为最密切相关的具体变量，以便优先考虑这些变量。我们的项目将通过严格审查现有的研究文献来提供这些信息，这些研究文献是关于解释参与预防行为（如洗手和社交距离）可能性的变量。本综述中包括的研究将在与COVID-19类似的疾病背景下进行，如严重急性呼吸系统综合征（SARS）、大流行性流感和季节性流感。我们还将纳入在审查过程中出现的有关COVID-19的任何相关证据。审查结果将总结给公共卫生机构，并将有助于优化旨在鼓励针对COVID-19或未来任何类似情况采取预防行为的任何信息的有效性。

Variables such as a person's health beliefs, social support, culture, etc. influence the likelihood of undertaking a health behaviour. Therefore, these variables need to be addressed in any public health messages designed to encourage preventive behaviours (such as handwashing and social distancing). In times of a pandemic, when lives are at risk if certain behaviours are not followed, the careful design of public health messages becomes even more important. To help public health officials to design effective messages, we need to identify the specific variables that are most strongly related to each preventive behaviour so that these can be prioritised.Our project will provide this information by rigorously reviewing the existing research literature about the variables that explain the likelihood of engaging in preventive behaviours (such as handwashing and social distancing). The research included in this review will have been conducted in the context of illnesses similar to COVID-19, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and pandemic and seasonal influenza. We will also include any relevant evidence about COVID-19 that emerges over the course of our review.The findings of the review will be summarised for public health bodies and will help to optimise the effectiveness of any messages designed to encourage preventive behaviours for COVID-19 or any future similar situations.