The impact of government actions and risk perception on the promotion of self-protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorAlvarez-Galvez, Javier
dc.contributor.authorAnastasiou, Andreas
dc.contributor.authorLamnisos, Demetris
dc.contributor.authorConstantinou, Marios
dc.contributor.authorNicolaou, Christiana
dc.contributor.authorPapacostas, Savvas
dc.contributor.authorVasiliou, Vasilis S.
dc.contributor.authorMcHugh, Louise
dc.contributor.authorLubenko, Jelena
dc.contributor.authorRuiz, Francisco J.
dc.contributor.authorPaez-Blarrina, Marisa
dc.contributor.authorMontesinos, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorValdivia-Salas, Sonsoles
dc.contributor.authorMerwin, Rhonda M.
dc.contributor.authorKarekla, Maria
dc.contributor.authorGloster, Andrew T.
dc.contributor.authorKassianos, Angelos P.
dc.contributor.institutionPsychology Laboratory
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-01T07:50:02Z
dc.date.available2023-09-01T07:50:02Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-17
dc.descriptionFunding Information: We wish to thank the following people for their work in helping to implement the study: Spyros Demosthenous, Christiana Karashali, Diamanto Rovania (University of Cyprus); Maria Antoniade (European University of Cyprus); Ioanna Menoikou (Cyprus University of Technology); Elias Ioannou (University of Nicosia); Sonja Borner, Victoria Firsching-Block, Alexander Fenn (University of Basel); Cristīne Šneidere, Ingrīda Trups-Kalne, Lolita Vansovica, Sandra Feldmane, (Riga Stradin¸š University); David Nilsson (Lund University); M.A.S.-V. (Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz); Claudia Lenuţa Rus, Catalina Otoiu, and Cristina Vajaean (Babes-Bolyai University); Jose Antonio Lopez-Sanchez (Research Institute for Social Sustainable Development at the University of Cadiz). Publisher Copyright: Copyright: © 2023 Alvarez-Galvez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.description.abstractIntroduction. We aim to understand the factors that drive citizens of different countries to adhere to recommended self-protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. Survey data was obtained through the COVID-19 Impact project. We selected countries that presented a sufficiently complete time series and a statistically relevant sample for running the analysis: Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. To identify country-specific differences in self-protective behaviors, we used previous evidence and change-point detection analysis to establish variations across participating countries whose effect was then assessed by means of interrupted series analysis.  Results. A high level of compliance with health and governmental authorities’ recommendations were generally observed in all included countries. The level of stress decreased near the period when countries such as Cyprus, Greece or the United Kingdom relaxed their prevention behavior recommendations. However, this relaxation of behaviors did not occur in countries such as Germany, Ireland, or the United States. As observed in the change-point detection analysis, when the daily number of recorded COVID-19 cases decreased, people relaxed their protective behaviors (Cyprus, Greece, Ireland), although the opposite trend was observed in Switzerland.  Discussion. COVID-19 self-protective behaviors were heterogeneous across countries examined. Our findings show that there is probably no single winning strategy for exiting future health crises, as similar interventions, aimed to promote self-protective behaviors, may be received differently depending on the specific population groups and on the particular geographical context in which they are implemented.en
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
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dc.identifier.citationAlvarez-Galvez, J, Anastasiou, A, Lamnisos, D, Constantinou, M, Nicolaou, C, Papacostas, S, Vasiliou, V S, McHugh, L, Lubenko, J, Ruiz, F J, Paez-Blarrina, M, Montesinos, F, Valdivia-Salas, S, Merwin, R M, Karekla, M, Gloster, A T & Kassianos, A P 2023, 'The impact of government actions and risk perception on the promotion of self-protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic', PLoS ONE, vol. 18, no. 4 , e0284433. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284433
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0284433
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/14869
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85152635295&partnerID=8YFLogxK
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPLoS ONE
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject3.3 Health sciences
dc.subject5.1 Psychology
dc.subject1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database
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dc.titleThe impact of government actions and risk perception on the promotion of self-protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemicen
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