Table 3.

Adherence to government-mandated health-protective behaviours at period 1 and period 2. Full GEE model containing all predictor variables adjusted for time, N=1622

	Adherence to government-mandated health-protective behaviours QIC = 1517.22
All predictors	B [95% CI]	p
Female sex (vs other)	0.22 [0.12, 0.32]	< 0.001
White ethnicity (vs other)	-0.15 [-0.37, 0.07]	0.167
No post-16 qualification (vs yes)	0.14 [0, 0.29]	0.057
Other country of residence (vs England)	-0.14 [-0.27, -0.13]	0.031
Not being a key worker (vs yes)	0.03 [-0.09, 0.13]	0.660
Living alone (vs not)	-0.07 [-0.22, 0.10]	0.427
Not living with vulnerable people (vs yes)	-0.13 [-0.24,—0.02]	0.019
Income < £50,000 (vs ≥ £50,000)	-0.14 [-0.23, -0.04]	0.005
Income ‘Prefer not to say’ (vs ≥ £50,000)	-0.11 [-0.29, 0.06]	0.210
Non-smoker (vs smoker)	0.04 [-0.12, 0.19]	0.648
Obese/overweight (vs other)	0.01 [-0.08, 0.10]	0.760
No health problems (vs yes)	-0.04 [-0.14, 0.06]	0.448
Not perceived high risk of COVID-19 (vs yes)	-0.23 [-0.32, -0.13]	< 0.001
Not diagnosed/suspected COVID-19 (vs yes)	0.05 [-0.06, 0.16]	0.389
Age (cont.)	0.09 [0.05, 0.12]	< 0.001
Quality of life	0.05 [-0.09, -0.001]	0.055
Experience of social distancing	0.0002 [-0.0001, 0.001]	0.575

Models also included Time as a covariate. No significant time*predictor interaction improved the model, QIC is a relative (lower is better) measure of goodness of fit, Bold indicates statistical significance. Β Beta parameter, CI Confidence interval, government-mandated health-protective behaviours are regularly washing hands, wearing masks indoors, maintaining the recommended physical distance from others