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KMID : 1138720220480020033
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Korean Public Health Research
2022 Volume.48 No. 2 p.33 ~ p.46
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Social trust, reciprocity, and preventive behaviors of COVID-19 among Korean adults
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Che Xianhua
Kim Yoo-Jin
Chung Eun-Young
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study aimed to identify individual and social environmental factors related to individuals’ compliance with the recommended preventive behaviors of COVID-19.
Methods: Using data of 1,500 adults aged ≥18 years from the 2020 Daejeon Metropolitan City Health Survey, the association among individual factors (gender, age, education level, employment status, monthly income, number of chronic diseases, perceived health status, depressive mood), social environmental factors (trust toward neighborhood and government, and perceived reciprocity of community), and the practice of preventive behaviors of COVID-19 (e.g., keeping social distance, washing hands frequently, etc.) were analyzed through 3 multivariate logistic regression models.
Results: Among individual factors, gender (OR=1.85, 95% CI=1.42~2.42), educational level (OR=1.80, 95% CI=1.08~3.02), perceived health status (OR=2.22, 95% CI=1.34~3.68) were associated with the practice of preventive behaviors of COVID-19. As the social environmental factors, trust toward neighborhood (OR=1.60, 95% CI=1.20~2.15) and government (OR=1.43, 95% CI=1.20~1.70), and perceived reciprocity of community (OR=1.87, 95% CI=1.38~2.55) were the effective factors related to practice of preventive behaviors of COVID-19. Interestingly, the negative effect of depressive mood on the outcome variable (OR=0.75, 95% CI=0.57~0.99) were eliminated with these social environmental factors in the final model.
Conclusion: Findings from this study indicate that not only individual characteristics but also social environmental factors such as trust toward neighborhood and government, and the reciprocity of community are important factors of practicing preventive behaviors of COVID-19, which have implications for developing the effective prevention strategies to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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KEYWORD
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COVID-19, Behavior, Social capital, Trust, Depression
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