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. 2022 Dec 14;22:2347. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14509-7

Table 2.

Overall adherence to government-mandated health-protective behaviours and to the four individual health-protective behaviours for period 1 (3-month follow-up) and period 2 (6-month follow-up), weighted and unweighted samples

Period 1 Weighted sample N = 1863
% [95%CI]
Period 1 Unweighted sample N = 1969
% [95%CI]
Period 2 Weighted sample N = 1780
% [95%CI]
Period 2 Unweighted sample N = 1944
% [95%CI]
Overall adherence to government-mandated health-protective behaviours
Overall adherence (0) 12.0 [10.4–13.6] 9.0 [7.7–10.4] 5.1 [4.1–6.1] 2.8 [2.1–3.6]
Overall adherence (1) 18.4 [16.7–20.2] 15.6 [13.4–17.2] 16.9 [15.2–18.7] 15.8 [14.2–17.5]
Overall adherence (2) 26.5 [24.5–28.5] 27.9 [25.9–29.9] 27.7 [25.6–29.7] 27.8 [25.8–29.8]
Overall adherence (3) 45.3 [43.0–47.5] 48.9 [46.7–51.1] 50.3 [48.0–52.7] 53.5 [51.3–55.7]
Adherence to individual health-protective behaviours
Regularly washing hands (always) 63.0 [60.9–65.2] 66.2 [64.1–68.3] 63.8 [61.6–66.0] 66.7 [64.6–68.8]
Wearing masks indoors (always) 80.2 [78.4–82.0] 82.8 [81.1–84.5] 92.4 [91.1–93.6] 95.1 [94.1–96.0]
Maintaining the recommended physical distance (always) 64.0 [61.9–66.2] 69.1 [67.0-] 67.1 [64.9–69.2] 70.3 [68.2–72.3]
Carrying own disinfectant(always) 48.4 [46.2–50.7] 55.5 [53.3–57.7] 50.7 [48.4–53.0] 55.2 [53.0–57.5]

CI Confidence intervals, government-mandated health-protective behaviours are regularly washing hands, wearing masks indoors, maintaining the recommended physical distance from others