Trial reportScientific reports2021
Community psychological and behavioural responses to coronavirus disease 2019 over one year of the pandemic in 2020 in Hong Kong.
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- Effects of Perceived Scarcity on Mental Health, Time and Risk Preferences, and Decision-Making During and After COVID-19 Lockdown: Quasi-Natural Experimental Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Political orientation and COVID-19 policy preferences during the early pandemic: a comparative analysis of China and South Korea.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- [Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of patients with pre-existing psychopathology].Revista espanola de salud publica · 2024Observational
- Motivators and Demotivators for COVID-19 Vaccination Based on Co-Occurrence Networks of Verbal Reasons for Vaccination Acceptance and Resistance: Repetitive Cross-Sectional Surveys and Network Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Dynamic predictors of COVID-19 vaccination uptake and their interconnections over two years in Hong Kong.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Use of interviewer-administered telephone surveys during infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics: a scoping review.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- A longitudinal study of COVID-19 preventive behavior fatigue in Hong Kong: a city with previous pandemic experience.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Family context as a double-edged sword for psychological distress amid the COVID-19 pandemic with the mediating effect of individual fear and the moderating effect of household income.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Understanding the impact of rapid antigen tests on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the fifth wave of COVID-19 in Hong Kong in early 2022.Emerging microbes & infections · 2022Article
- Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 under an elimination strategy in Hong Kong.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Psycho-behavioural responses of the general population to COVID-19 after mass vaccination: a cross-sectional study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2022Article
- Predictors for adherent behavior in the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional telephone survey.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 under an elimination strategy in Hong Kong.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
Monitoring community psychological and behavioural responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is important for informing policy making and risk communication to sustain public compliance with challenging precautionary behaviours and mitigating the psychological impacts. Monthly telephone-based cross-sectional surveys in January-April 2020 and then weekly surveys from May through December 2020 were conducted to monitor changes in public risk perception of COVID-19, personal efficacy in self-protection, confidence in government's ability to control the pandemic, precautionary behaviours, perceived impact of precautionary behaviours, psychological fatigue and distress in Hong Kong, and examine their inter-relationships. While worry about contracting COVID-19 increased, personal efficacy and confidence in government declined as the community incidence of COVID-19 increased. The public maintained high compliance with most precautionary behaviours throughout but relaxed behaviours that were more challenging when disease incidence declined. Public confidence in government was persistently low throughout, of which, a lower level was associated with more psychological fatigue, lower compliance with precautionary behaviours and greater psychological distress. Perceived greater negative impact of precautionary behaviours was also associated with more psychological fatigue which in turn was associated with relaxation of precautionary behaviours. Female, younger and unemployed individuals reported greater psychological distress throughout different stages of the pandemic. Risk communication should focus on promoting confidence in self-protection and pandemic control to avoid helplessness to act when the pandemic resurges. Policy making should prioritize building public trust, enhancing support for sustaining precautionary behaviours, and helping vulnerable groups to adapt to the stress during the pandemic.
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