There are errors in Table 3. In the “Shopping for groceries/pharmacy” and “Shopping for items other than groceries/pharmacy” sections of the table, the values in the two columns under the heading “Self-reported behaviour n (%)” have been incorrectly switched. Please see the correct Table 3 here.
Table 3. Associations between thinking you have had COVID-19 and correct identification of most common symptoms of COVID-19; and adherence to social distancing measures (shopping for groceries/pharmacy, shopping for items other than groceries/pharmacy, and meeting up with friends and/or family who do not live with you; binary outcomes).
Thinks have had COVID-19? | Self-reported behaviour n (%) | Odds ratio (95% CI) |
Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)† | |
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Shopping for groceries/pharmacy |
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On one or fewer days in the last week n = 3760 | On two or more days in the last week n = 2389 | |||
No | 2955 (63.5) | 1701 (36.5) | Reference | Reference |
Yes | 805 (53.9) | 688 (46.1) | 0.67 (0.60 to 0.76)* | 0.78 (0.69 to 0.89)* |
Shopping for items other than groceries/pharmacy | ||||
Not at all in the last week n = 4316 |
On one or more days in the last week n = 1833 | |||
No | 3500 (75.2) | 1156 (24.8) | Reference | Reference |
Yes | 816 (54.7) | 677 (45.3) | 0.40 (0.35 to 0.45)* | 0.51 (0.44 to 0.58)* |
Meeting up with friends or family |
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Not at all in the last week n = 5271 |
On one or more days in the last week n = 878 | |||
No | 4200 (90.2) | 456 (9.8) | Reference | Reference |
Yes | 1071 (71.7) | 422 (28.3) | 0.28 (0.24 to 0.32)* | 0.36 (0.30 to 0.43)* |
Correct identification of cough and fever | ||||
Did not correctly identify common symptoms n = 2390 | Correctly identified common symptoms n = 3632 | |||
No | 1644 (36.0) | 2927 (64.0) | Reference | Reference |
Yes | 746 (51.4) | 705 (48.6) | 0.53 (0.47 to 0.59)* | 0.61 (0.54 to 0.69)* |
*p≤.005
†Adjusting for all social and demographic characteristics and experimental condition
Reference
- 1.Smith LE, Mottershaw AL, Egan M, Waller J, Marteau TM, et al. (2020) The impact of believing you have had COVID-19 on self-reported behaviour: Cross-sectional survey. PLOS ONE 15(11): e0240399. 10.1371/journal.pone.0240399 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]