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Chang, K.-C., Strong, C., Pakpour, A.H., Griffiths, M.D. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8880-6524 and Lin, C.-Y.,
2020.
Factors related to preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors among people with mental illness.
Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 119 (12), pp. 1772-1780.
ISSN 0929-6646
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Abstract
Background/Purpose: Because of the spread of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019), preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors become important for individuals, especially those who are vulnerable. The present study proposes a model to explain the preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors among people with mental illness in Taiwan.
Methods: A cross-sectional design was carried out and 414 patients with mental illness (230 males [55.6%]; mean age = 46.32 [SD = 10.86]) agreed to participate in the study. All the participants completed the Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Scale, Self-Stigma Scale-Short, Believing COVID-19 Information Scale, Fear of COVID-19 Scale, and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21. Regression models and structural equation modeling (SEM) were applied to examine the factors associated with preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors.
Results: Both regression models and SEM showed that trust in COVID-19 information sources (standardized coefficient [β] = 0.211 in regression; β = 0.194 in SEM) and fear of COVID-19 (β = −0.128 in regression; β = −0.223 in SEM) significantly explained preventive behaviors among individuals with mental illness. The SEM further showed that fear of COVID-19 was significantly explained by trust in COVID-19 information sources (β = 0.220) and self-stigma (β = 0.454).
Conclusions: Based on the results, healthcare providers should help individuals with mental illness reduce self-stigma and fear of COVID-19 which would consequently improve their preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors. Moreover, improving trust in COVID-19 information sources for individuals with mental illness may be another method to improve their preventive behaviors.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of the Formosan Medical Association | ||||||||
| Creators: | Chang, K.-C., Strong, C., Pakpour, A.H., Griffiths, M.D. and Lin, C.-Y. | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
| Date: | December 2020 | ||||||||
| Volume: | 119 | ||||||||
| Number: | 12 | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0929-6646 | ||||||||
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| Rights: | © 2020, Formosan Medical Association. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||||
| Date Added: | 20 Aug 2020 14:04 | ||||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2021 15:11 | ||||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/40491 |
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