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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Survey of Adherence with COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors During the 2020 Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays Among Members of the COVID-19 Community Research Partnership
Journal of Community Health, Volume 47, No. 1, Year 2022
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Description
Prevention behaviors represent important public health tools to limit spread of SARS-CoV-2. Adherence with recommended public health prevention behaviors among 20000 + members of a COVID-19 syndromic surveillance cohort from the mid-Atlantic and southeastern United States was assessed via electronic survey following the 2020 Thanksgiving and winter holiday (WH) seasons. Respondents were predominantly non-Hispanic Whites (90%), female (60%), and ≥ 50 years old (59%). Non-household members (NHM) were present at 47.1% of Thanksgiving gatherings and 69.3% of WH gatherings. Women were more likely than men to gather with NHM (p < 0.0001). Attending gatherings with NHM decreased with older age (Thanksgiving: 60.0% of participants aged < 30 years to 36.3% aged ≥ 70 years [p-trend < 0.0001]; WH: 81.6% of those < 30 years to 61.0% of those ≥ 70 years [p-trend < 0.0001]). Non-Hispanic Whites were more likely to gather with NHM than were Hispanics or non-Hispanic Blacks (p < 0.0001). Mask wearing, reported by 37.3% at Thanksgiving and 41.9% during the WH, was more common among older participants, non-Hispanic Blacks, and Hispanics when gatherings included NHM. In this survey, most people did not fully adhere to recommended public health safety behaviors when attending holiday gatherings. It remains unknown to what extent failure to observe these recommendations may have contributed to the COVID-19 surges observed following Thanksgiving and the winter holidays in the United States. © 2021, The Author(s).
Authors & Co-Authors
Plumb, Ian D.
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Correa, Adolfo
United States, Jackson
Mississippi University School of Medicine
Weintraub, William S.
United States, Washington, D.c.
Georgetown University
Wierzba, Thomas F.
United States, Winston Salem
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Sanders, John Walton
United States, Winston Salem
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Espeland, Mark Andrew
Unknown Affiliation
Bertoni, Alain G.
Unknown Affiliation
Mathews, Allison Christine
Unknown Affiliation
Rushing, Scott
Unknown Affiliation
Wilson, Kenneth C.M.
Unknown Affiliation
Ahmed, Amina
Unknown Affiliation
Hogg, Melanie M.
Unknown Affiliation
Kolm, Paul
Unknown Affiliation
Oberhelman, Richard A.
Unknown Affiliation
Keating, Joseph A.
Unknown Affiliation
Schieffelin, John S.
Unknown Affiliation
Yukich, Joshua O.
Unknown Affiliation
Kotloff, Karen L.
Unknown Affiliation
Chen, Wilbur H.
Unknown Affiliation
Friedman-Klabanoff, De Anna J.
Unknown Affiliation
Berry, Andrea A.
Unknown Affiliation
Powell, Helen
Unknown Affiliation
Mena, Leandro Antonio
Unknown Affiliation
Gao, Yan
Unknown Affiliation
Raafat, Mohamed
Unknown Affiliation
Santacatterina, Michele
Unknown Affiliation
Zeger, Scott L.
Unknown Affiliation
Reilly, Cavan S.
Unknown Affiliation
Statistics
Citations: 6
Authors: 28
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s10900-021-01021-z
ISSN:
00945145
Research Areas
Covid
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Cohort Study
Study Approach
Quantitative
Participants Gender
Male
Female