Clean and Contain: Initial Development of a Measure of Infection Prevention Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

CONCLUSIONS: Our measure is a reliable and valid indicator of compliance with cleaning and containing health behaviors that help to prevent the spread of diseases like COVID-19. Future research should replicate construct validity in more diverse samples and continue to refine items, examine construct validity, including predictive and discriminant validity, and improve the measure for future use. With continued use and refinement, this measure could allow health officials and researchers to accurately assess compliance with important infection prevention behavior guidelines. PMID: 32856691 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Annals of Behavioral Medicine - August 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Toussaint LL, Cheadle AD, Fox J, Williams DR Tags: Ann Behav Med Source Type: research