TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining Psychosocial Factors and Community Mitigation Practices to Limit the Spread of COVID-19
T2 - Evidence from Nigeria
AU - Shittu, Ekundayo
AU - Adewumi, Funmilayo
AU - Ene, Nkemdilim
AU - Keluo-Udeke, Somto Chloe
AU - Wonodi, Chizoba
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: The authors also wish to acknowledge the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant to Health Systems Consult (HSCL) and the National Science Foundation under award 2021317. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the supporting organizations.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This research was supported by Women Advocates for Vaccine Access (WAVA) and the Coordinating and Mobilizing Civil Society Response in Nigeria (COMCiRIN) who led the exhaustive data collection drive.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - We examine the psychosocial factors influencing community adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) to limit the spread of COVID-19. Using data from 990 respondents in communities across Nigeria, we examine the correlation of health behaviors and socioeconomic indicators. We conduct logistic regression to estimate the relationship between mask wearing as a health-seeking NPI with demographic and socioeconomic variables. We estimate separate models in the sensitivity robustness checks with other NPIs and control for differences across sex, age, education, number in household, and the presence of a student in the respondent’s household. A crucial finding is that health-seeking NPI behaviors are statistically significantly affected in different ways by the menu of socioeconomic indicators. The control for age, sex, education, and household size indicates that there is intersectionality of how these factors influence specific mitigation practices. We find that women are more likely to engage in mask wearing, hand washing, and use of hand sanitizers and tissues than men, and the provision of palliatives and access to family supplies significantly enhances community mitigation. Palliatives and access to family supplies enhance most health-seeking behaviors. The implication for pandemic mitigation policy is that minimizing incidence rates requires having responsive initiatives such as information updates on pandemic progression.
AB - We examine the psychosocial factors influencing community adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) to limit the spread of COVID-19. Using data from 990 respondents in communities across Nigeria, we examine the correlation of health behaviors and socioeconomic indicators. We conduct logistic regression to estimate the relationship between mask wearing as a health-seeking NPI with demographic and socioeconomic variables. We estimate separate models in the sensitivity robustness checks with other NPIs and control for differences across sex, age, education, number in household, and the presence of a student in the respondent’s household. A crucial finding is that health-seeking NPI behaviors are statistically significantly affected in different ways by the menu of socioeconomic indicators. The control for age, sex, education, and household size indicates that there is intersectionality of how these factors influence specific mitigation practices. We find that women are more likely to engage in mask wearing, hand washing, and use of hand sanitizers and tissues than men, and the provision of palliatives and access to family supplies significantly enhances community mitigation. Palliatives and access to family supplies enhance most health-seeking behaviors. The implication for pandemic mitigation policy is that minimizing incidence rates requires having responsive initiatives such as information updates on pandemic progression.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Nigeria
KW - health policy
KW - mitigation practices
KW - non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI)
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U2 - 10.3390/healthcare10030585
DO - 10.3390/healthcare10030585
M3 - Article
C2 - 35327062
AN - SCOPUS:85127378392
SN - 2227-9032
VL - 10
JO - Healthcare (Switzerland)
JF - Healthcare (Switzerland)
IS - 3
M1 - 585
ER -