Volume 29, Number 9—September 2023
Research
Compliance Trajectory and Patterns of COVID-19 Preventive Measures, Japan, 2020–2022
Taro Kusama, Kenji Takeuchi
, Yudai Tamada, Sakura Kiuchi, Ken Osaka, and Takahiro Tabuchi
, Yudai Tamada, Sakura Kiuchi, Ken Osaka, and Takahiro Tabuchi
Table 1
Preventive behaviors of participants in each survey in study of compliance trajectory and patterns of COVID-19 preventive measures, Japan, 2020–2022*
| Characteristics | Compliance | Surveys |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All responses | JACSIS2020 | JASTIS2021 | JACSIS2021 | JASTIS2022 | ||
| No. responses |
NA |
103,312 (100.0) |
24,651 (100.0) |
22,350 (100.0) |
27,348 (100.0) |
28,963 (100.0) |
| Preventive behaviors | ||||||
| Mask-wearing | Yes | 91,377 (88.5) | 20,624 (83.7) | 19,415 (86.9) | 24,930 (91.2) | 26,407 (91.2) |
| No | 11,935 (11.5) | 4,027 (16.3) | 2,935 (13.1) | 2,418 (8.8) | 2,556 (8.8) | |
| Ventilation | Yes | 42,240 (40.9) | 11,221 (45.5) | 8,066 (36.1) | 13,464 (49.2) | 9,489 (32.8) |
| No | 61,072 (59.1) | 13,430 (54.5) | 14,284 (63.9) | 13,884 (50.8) | 19,474 (67.2) | |
| Social distancing | Yes | 45,759 (44.3) | 10,317 (41.8) | 9,884 (44.2) | 12,855 (47.0) | 12,703 (43.9) |
| No | 57,553 (55.7) | 14,334 (58.2) | 12,466 (55.8) | 14,493 (53.0) | 16,260 (56.1) | |
| Avoiding crowds | Yes | 61,679 (59.7) | 14,771 (59.9) | 13,216 (59.1) | 17,092 (62.5) | 16,600 (57.3) |
| No | 41,633 (40.3) | 9,880 (40.1) | 9,134 (40.9) | 10,256 (37.5) | 12,363 (42.7) | |
| Hand sanitation | Yes | 68,435 (66.2) | 14,550 (59.0) | 14,696 (65.8) | 19,034 (69.6) | 20,155 (69.6) |
| No | 34,877 (33.8) | 10,101 (41.0) | 7,654 (34.2) | 8,314 (30.4) | 8,808 (30.4) | |
| Handwashing | Yes | 57,316 (55.5) | 13,551 (55.0) | 11,962 (53.5) | 15,986 (58.5) | 15,817 (54.6) |
| No | 45,996 (44.5) | 11,100 (45.0) | 10,388 (46.5) | 11,362 (41.5) | 13,146 (45.4) | |
| Gargling | Yes | 47,298 (45.8) | 10,859 (44.0) | 10,736 (48.0) | 12,373 (45.2) | 13,330 (46.0) |
| No | 56,014 (54.2) | 13,792 (56.0) | 11,614 (52.0) | 14,975 (54.8) | 15,633 (54.0) | |
| Respiratory hygiene | Yes | 75,845 (73.4) | 16,817 (68.2) | 15,810 (70.7) | 20,967 (76.7) | 22,250 (76.8) |
| No | 27,467 (26.6) | 7,834 (31.8) | 6,540 (29.3) | 6,381 (23.3) | 6,713 (23.2) | |
| Avoiding touching face | Yes | 45,945 (44.5) | 10,633 (43.1) | 9,707 (43.4) | 12,451 (45.5) | 13,154 (45.4) |
| No | 57,367 (55.5) | 14,018 (56.9) | 12,643 (56.6) | 14,897 (54.5) | 15,809 (54.6) | |
| Surface sanitation | Yes | 21,378 (20.7) | 5,101 (20.7) | 4,880 (21.8) | 5,648 (20.6) | 5,748 (19.8) |
| No | 81,935 (79.)3 | 19,550 (79.3) | 17,470 (78.2) | 21,700 (79.4) | 23,215 (80.2) | |
| Avoiding travel | Yes | 74,478 (72.1) | 17,323 (70.3) | 16,542 (74.0) | 20,571 (75.2) | 20,042 ()69.2 |
| No | 28,834 (27.9) | 7,328 (29.7) | 5,808 (26.0) | 6,777 (24.8) | 8,921 (30.8) | |
| Avoiding going out | Yes | 58,274 (56.4) | 14,648 (59.4) | 12,839 (57.4) | 15,726 (57.5) | 15,061 (52.0) |
| No | 45,038 (43.6) | 10,003 (40.6) | 9,511 (42.6) | 11,622 (42.5) | 13,902 (48.0) | |
| Avoiding talking closely | Yes | 43,499 (42.1) | 9,796 (39.7) | 9,160 (41.0) | 12,266 (44.8) | 12,277 (42.4) |
| No | 59,813 (57.9) | 14,855 (60.3) | 13,190 (59.0) | 15,082 (55.2) | 16,686 (57.6) | |
| Avoiding meeting persons at high risk | Yes | 61,173 (59.2) | 14,402 (58.4) | 12,339 (55.2) | 17,405 (63.6) | 17,028 (58.8) |
| No | 42,139 (40.8) | 10,249 (41.6) | 10,011 (44.8) | 9,943 ()36.4 | 11,935 (41.2) | |
*Values are no. (%) of responses to questionnaires. JACSIS, Japan COVID-19 and Society Internet Survey (2020, 2021); JASTIS, Japan Society and New Tobacco Internet Survey (2021, 2022).
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