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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Social Distancing Compliance under COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health Impacts: A Population-Based Study.

Sheng Zhi Zhao, Janet Yuen Ha Wong, Yongda Wu, Edmond Pui Hang Choi, Man Ping Wang, Tai Hing Lam

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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75citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

75 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 173 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sheng Zhi ZhaoSchool of Nursing, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3024-0956
Janet Yuen Ha WongSchool of Nursing, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3000-4577
Yongda WuSchool of Nursing, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0226-0984
Edmond Pui Hang ChoiSchool of Nursing, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China.
Man Ping WangSchool of Nursing, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4000-2388
Tai Hing LamSchool of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China.
University of Hong Kong · HKHKU-Pasteur Research Pole · HK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The success of public health measures for controlling the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic relies on population compliance. We analyzed compliance with social distancing and its associations with mental health. The Hong Kong COVID-19 Health Information Survey was conducted from 9-23 April 2020 on 1501 adults randomly sampled for landline telephone interviews (

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Mental HealthAdolescentAdultBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19FemaleHong KongHumansMaleMiddle AgedPandemicsPatient CompliancePneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Social IsolationcomplianceCOVID-19mental healthpublic health interventionsocial distancingstay-at-home

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PMID32937929
PMCPMC7560229
OpenAlexW3086725212

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