RESULTS
COVID-19 behavior, COVID-19 behaviors
REGRESSION, EVENTS, EVENT
During our study period, 5,711 questionnaires were completed by 2,601 unique respondents: 1,179 individuals completed the questionnaire one time only; 651 completed the questionnaire twice; and 771 completed it three times or more (COVID-19 behaviors study sample sizes for respondents, questionnaires, and reported gatherings. Because of the nature of data collection, individual gatherings are not necessarily unique. Some respondents living in the same catchment areas may be reporting on the same events but from their own perspectives.Most respondents were women aged 15 to 34 (Demographic characteristics of COVID-19 behavior study respondents, at the questionnaire and respondent levels, overall and by timepointTimepoint sample sizes sum to be greater than the total (Generally, before the large wave of cases (T4) respondents’ perception of risk was low: 77.5% of respondents in T1, 72.8% of respondents in T2, and 85.5% of respondents in T3 reported feeling at low or very low risk of contracting COVID-19, compared with 51.5% in T4. Responses showed a general trend of increasing perceptions of risk from COVID-19 between T1 and T4 in all districts; this change over time was statistically significant (Respondents’ perceptions of risk of contracting COVID-19, stratified by district and timepoint. * Bars in gray represent months in which sample sizes were too small to present.Among respondents, the most frequently attended event type was church, with 71% attending a service in the 2 weeks before questionnaire completion (Attendance at large gatherings and practice of prevention behaviors, stratified by gathering typeIQR = interquartile range; N/A = not applicable.Although patients typically meet with their healthcare provider indoors, facilities have waiting spaces that are largely outdoors (or spaces with a roof but open walls) where most of the people sit while they wait. The indoor spaces are used by one to three patients at a time.At all gathering types, respondents self-reported wearing masks more frequently than they reported most or all their peers wearing masks (Self-reported mask use and perceived behaviors of other attendees by gathering type and location, including perceived number of attendees. * The vertical line at 50 perceived number of attendees serves to display the number of events that exceeded the government’s guideline of suggested gathering size.After controlling for potential confounders in the dataset, respondents had lower odds of self-reported mask use and lower odds of mask wearing among other attendees at funerals compared with all other gathering types (self-use: aOR 0.44; other attendees: aOR 0.54; Questionnaire-level predictors of self and other attendee mask use at gatherings; bivariate models and multivariate regression modelCI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio.At the individual level, among respondents with linked demographic data, older (35 years and older) respondents reported lower odds of mask wearing for themselves (aOR 0.85) or other attendees (aOR 0.80) compared with respondents aged 25 to 34 (Individual-level demographic predictors of self and other attendee mask use at gatherings; bivariate models and multivariate regression modelCI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio.