NCT04367337

Health Behavior Change During COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Behavior Change During COVID-19 Pandemic: the Focus on Handwashing

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 6,079 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims at investigating handwashing behavior during COVID-19 pandemic. It was hypothesized that social-cognitive and emotional predictors as well as COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates within the country would be associated with handwashing behavior in the general population of adults in 14 countries.

Detailed description

This observational study aims at testing the adherence to handwashing guidelines (the World Health Organization, WHO, 2020) at two measurement points, spanning 1 month. Adults from the general population in 14 countries (Poland, Australia, Canada, China, France, Gambia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Switzerland) will provide self-report data on handwashing behavior and its social-cognitive predictors (perceived effectiveness of handwashing, risk perception, outcome expectancy, self-efficacy, intention, planning, and action control), anxiety, as well as COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates within the country.

Conditions

• Health Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No intervention	Observational data collection only, accounting for COVID-19 morbidity and mortality levels within each country

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-25
• Primary completion: 2020-09-24
• Completion: 2020-09-24
• First posted: 2020-04-29
• Last updated: 2021-08-10

Locations

14 sites across 14 countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Switzerland, The Gambia