ArticleBMJ global health2022
Face mask mandates and risk compensation: an analysis of mobility data during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.
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- Does COVID-19 vaccination affect risk perception and adherence to preventive behaviors? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of face-covering use on adherence to other COVID-19 protective behaviours: A systematic review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices related to SARS-CoV-2 prevention in Kenya.Journal of public health in Africa · 2025Article
- Impacts of COVID-19-Related Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on Mobility and Accidents in Bangladesh.Transportation research record · 2023Article
- Health Behaviours among Travellers Regarding Risk Compensation Following COVID-19 Vaccination in Taizhou, China.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2023Article
- Willingness to pay for COVID-19 mitigation measures in public transport and paratransit in low-income countries.Transportation research. Part A, Policy and practice · 2023Article
- An examination and extension of the Peltzman effect during the Covid-19 pandemic.Current research in ecological and social psychology · 2023Article
- Influenza vaccination in coronavirus times: Primary Care professionals' intention to get vaccinated in Central Catalonia (VAGCOVID). A cross sectional study.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionConcerns have been raised about the potential for risk compensation in the context of mask mandates for mitigating the spread of COVID-19. However, the debate about the presence or absence of risk compensation for universal mandatory mask-wearing rules-especially in the context of COVID-19-is not settled yet.
methodsMobility is used as a proxy for risky behaviour before and after the mask mandates. Two sets of regressions are estimated to decipher (any) risk-compensating effect of mask mandate in Bangladesh. These include: (1) intervention regression analysis of daily activities at six types of locations, using pre-mask-mandate and post-mandate data; and (2) multiple regression analysis of daily new COVID-19 cases on daily mobility (lagged) to establish mobility as a valid proxy.
results(1) Statistically, mobility increased at all five non-residential locations, while home stays decreased after the mask mandate was issued; (2) daily mobility had a statistically significant association on daily new cases (with around 10 days of lag). Both significances were calculated at 95% confidence level.
conclusionCommunity mobility had increased (and stay at home decreased) after the mandatory mask-wearing rule, and given mobility is associated with increases in new COVID-19 cases, there is evidence of risk compensation effect of the mask mandate-at least partially-in Bangladesh.
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