Wearing masks, social-distancing, staying home: Those preventive measures were least likely to be followed by Canadians who were least informed about how best to stop the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
That's the conclusion of a new study by sociology and psychology researchers at Université de Montréal, based on
"We also expected that people who relied mostly on informal sources to get their information on COVID-19 were less likely to follow what the public-health authorities were recommending," she said. Paid for their involvement, the participants answered at least four times over the year the survey was conducted, with questions regarding their adherence to public health measures, their level of understanding of those measures, and where they got their information about COVID-19.
"Our results show that the level of perceived understanding was positively linked to adherence to sanitary measures, such that the higher the self-assessed level of understanding was, the higher were the chances of a person following a high adherence trajectory, and vice-versa," the study's authors note.
In sum, Courdi and her co-authors recommended,"governments and public-health agencies should strive to provide clear and coherent communication regardingif they want to ensure a higher level of understanding and improve adherence."
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