Capability, opportunity, and motivation to enact hygienic practices in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United Kingdom.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings have clear implications for the design of behaviour change interventions to promote hygienic practices. Interventions should focus on increasing and maintaining motivation to act and include elements that promote and maintain social support and knowledge of COVID-19 transmission. Groups in particular need of targeting for interventions to increase hygienic practices are males and those living in cities and suburbs. PMID: 32415918 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32415918?dopt=Abstract

Source: British Journal of Health Psychology - May 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Levita L, Martinez AP, Mason L, McBride O, McKay R, Murphy J, Shevlin M, Stocks TVA, Bennett KM, Bentall RP Tags: Br J Health Psychol Source Type: research