COmpliance with pandemic COmmands Scale (COCOS): The relationship between compliance with COVID-19 measures and sociodemographic and attitudinal variables.

Fabia Morales-Vives,Andreu Vigil-Colet,Maria Dolores Varea,Pere J Ferrando,Jorge-Manuel Dueñas,Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0262698

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Journal: PloS one	Publication Date: Jan 19, 2022
Citations: 11	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Rovira i Virgili University

Abstract

Several studies in different countries have reported that part of the population does not fully comply with the measures recommended to prevent COVID-19, and therefore poses a risk to public health. For this reason, several measures have been developed to assess the level of compliance, although many of them have methodological limitations or do not include a comprehensive set of items. The main goal of the current study was to develop a new instrument with suitable psychometric properties, which includes a more complete set of items and controls the impact of acquiescence bias. The participants were 1410 individuals (59.2% women) from Spain, who answered the new questionnaire and several items on sociodemographic and attitudinal issues. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were carried out, and the results suggested that only one content factor was underlying the data. This solution was replicated in a different subsample, which shows the stability of the solution. Furthermore, the relationships between the scores of the new questionnaire and the sociodemographic and attitudinal variables are similar to those obtained in previous studies, which can be regarded as evidence of the validity of the new questionnaire.

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The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was first detected on December 1, 2019, in Wuhan (People’s Republic of China) and, since it has spread throughout the world, causing thousands of deaths and hospital admissions
For many months there were no treatments or vaccines against the disease caused by this new coronavirus, called COVID-19, so the first contingency measures were designed to regulate the behavior of the general public, with measures and restrictions such as lockdown, social distancing, the use of masks, handwashing, etc
The main goal of the current study was to develop a new questionnaire to assess the level of compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures which (a) included a more comprehensive set of measures than those in previous studies, (b) controlled the impact of acquiescence bias, and (c) had appropriate psychometric properties, including dimensionality, structure, accuracy of the derived scores, and meaningful relations with relevant external variables

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The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was first detected on December 1, 2019, in Wuhan (People’s Republic of China) and, since it has spread throughout the world, causing thousands of deaths and hospital admissions. For many months there were no treatments or vaccines against the disease caused by this new coronavirus, called COVID-19, so the first contingency measures were designed to regulate the behavior of the general public, with measures and restrictions such as lockdown, social distancing, the use of masks, handwashing, etc.

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