Delay discounting of compliance with containment measures during the COVID-19 outbreak: a survey of the Italian population

Nese, Mattia; Riboli, Greta; Brighetti, Gianni; Sassi, Valentina; Camela, Elvira; Caselli, Gabriele; Sassaroli, Sandra; Borlimi, Rosita

doi:10.1007/s10389-020-01317-9

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“…These findings are in line with previous research that demonstrated the relationship between probability discounting and health-related decisions (i.e., Bruce et al, 2016;Jarmolowicz et al, 2018Jarmolowicz et al, , 2019. Recent studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic also indicate the relationship between risk-related measures and compliance with health authorities' recommendations (e.g., Byrne et al, 2020;Nese et al, 2020). Byrne et al (2020) conducted a similar study of the US population and found that an increased number of risky choices in a PDQlike task can be a strong predictor of lower adherence to appropriate mask-wearing behavior and social distancing recommendations.…”

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Probability Discounting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Camargo¹,

Passarelli²,

Oliveira³

et al. 2021

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This brief communication reports preliminary findings of a study conducted to investigate the relationship between probability discounting and people’s adherence to preventive behaviors recommended during the COVID-19 pandemic. A sample of 112 adults living in Brazil completed an online survey composed of a Probability Discounting Questionnaire (PDQ) and a 10-item assessment of how often they complied with the health authorities’ recommendations (e.g., wash the hands frequently, practice social distancing, stay at home as much as possible, wear a mask when in public). Data analysis included the participants who showed higher (n = 40) and lower (n = 40) adherence to preventive behaviors. Results revealed that probability discounting measures are related to people’s preventive actions. Participants in the higher adherence group present significantly larger risk aversion indices (i.e., larger h values) than participants in the lower adherence group. Also, participants who showed lower adherence to preventive behaviors were more likely to perform risky choices in the PDQ than participants who demonstrated higher compliance with health authorities’ recommendations. These preliminary results suggest that probability discounting can play an essential role in people’s self-protective decisions during a global health emergency, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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confidence: 91%

Probability Discounting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Camargo¹,

Passarelli²,

Oliveira³

et al. 2021

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“…Furthermore, success in diminishing the spread of the disease may largely depend on the compliance of people with the containment measures. Previous studies found that the duration of containment measures plays a crucial role in tackling the spread of the disease as people become less compliant over time [ 15 ]. We, therefore, took a further step and explored the relationship of self-reported citizens’ compliance with other factors such as trust in national government and medical care, fear of getting infected, measures’ perceived effectiveness and restrictiveness, experienced stress during the outbreak, time invested in following the news about the coronavirus outbreak, presence of underlying medical conditions, being infected or having family members infected by the virus, opinion about governments’ response to the outbreak, income loss caused by the crisis, provision of financial compensation for the lost income, and different demographic measures.…”

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Perceived Effectiveness, Restrictiveness, and Compliance with Containment Measures against the Covid-19 Pandemic: An International Comparative Study in 11 Countries

Georgieva

Lantta

Lickiewicz

et al. 2021

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National governments took action to delay the transmission of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) by implementing different containment measures. We developed an online survey that included 44 different containment measures. We aimed to assess how effective citizens perceive these measures, which measures are perceived as violation of citizens’ personal freedoms, which opinions and demographic factors have an effect on compliance with the measures, and what governments can do to most effectively improve citizens’ compliance. The survey was disseminated in 11 countries: UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, India, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and Sweden. We acquired 9543 unique responses. Our findings show significant differences across countries in perceived effectiveness, restrictiveness, and compliance. Governments that suffer low levels of trust should put more effort into persuading citizens, especially men, in the effectiveness of the proposed measures. They should provide financial compensation to citizens who have lost their job or income due to the containment measures to improve measure compliance. Policymakers should implement the least restrictive and most effective public health measures first during pandemic emergencies instead of implementing a combination of many restrictive measures, which has the opposite effect on citizens’ adherence and undermines human rights.

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“…With the objective of monitoring symptoms and ensuring early disease detection, quarantine involves the restriction of movement or separation from others of healthy persons who may have been exposed to the disease-causing agent but are not exhibiting any symptoms themselves. As such, all healthy people on whom quarantine is imposed may not accept its restrictions and adhere to them consistently (Nese et al 2020). Although sometimes used interchangeably, quarantine differs from isolation, which applies to people who have been diagnosed with the disease (Apenhorst et al 2020;Chittick et al 2016).…”

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Quarantine acceptance and adherence: qualitative evidence synthesis and conceptual framework

Sopory

Novak

Noyes

2021

J Public Health (Berl.)

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Aim Emergent infectious diseases often lack medical treatment or preventive vaccines, thus requiring non-pharmaceutical interventions such as quarantine to reduce disease transmission. Quarantine, defined as the separation and restriction of movement of healthy people who have potentially been exposed to the disease, remains contentious especially when the risks and benefits are not fully discussed and not effectively communicated to the people by the organizations who impose this public health measure. Subject and methods A qualitative evidence synthesis was conducted to examine the phenomenon of adherence to quarantine focused on the following questions: What strategies affect adherence to quarantine? What are the barriers and facilitators to quarantine acceptance? What benefits and harms of quarantine have been described or measured? Results The evidence synthesis produced 18 findings assessed with high confidence. The findings were used to construct a conceptual framework for inter- and within-organization coordination and public communication that includes the following topics for consideration: desired orientation for implementation; population demographics; perceptions of messages; prior acceptance of quarantine; likelihood of impacts of quarantine; perceptions of health infrastructure; and perceptions of policy importance. Conclusion The findings and conceptual framework can guide development of effective non-pharmaceutical interventions and as such have direct relevance to public health policy and decision-making for intervening in emergent infectious diseases outbreak such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Delay discounting of compliance with containment measures during the COVID-19 outbreak: a survey of the Italian population

Cited by 29 publications

References 34 publications

Probability Discounting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Probability Discounting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Perceived Effectiveness, Restrictiveness, and Compliance with Containment Measures against the Covid-19 Pandemic: An International Comparative Study in 11 Countries

Quarantine acceptance and adherence: qualitative evidence synthesis and conceptual framework

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