What is it about?
Health behaviors are essential to protecting people from infectious diseases, including COVID-19. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham investigated whether health behaviors, such as mask-wearing and social distancing, provide the same level of protection against COVID-19 for individuals with and without specific mental disorders.
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Why is it important?
Mask-wearing serves as a strong COVID-19 health behavior universally, but social distancing and hygiene practices appear less effective for those with certain mental disorders. Health policies should be adapted to offer additional resources, support, and mental health care to better protect people with mental health issues from COVID-19 and potentially other infectious diseases.
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This page is a summary of: Differential effectiveness of COVID‐19 health behaviors: The role of mental health conditions in mask‐wearing, social distancing, and hygiene practice, Health Care Science, July 2023, Tsinghua University Press,
DOI: 10.1002/hcs2.60.
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