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Title: Compliance with standard precaution and its relationship with views on infection control and prevention policy among Chinese university students during the COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s): Cheng, Winnie Lai Sheung 
Author(s): Kwong, E. W. Y.
Lee, R. L. T.
Tang, A. C. Y.
Wong, L. L. K.
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: MDPI
Journal: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 
Volume: 19
Issue: 9
Abstract: 
Background
COVID-19 has placed tremendous pressure on the global public health system and has changed daily life.

Aim
To examine the relationships between the perceived threat, perceived stress, coping responses and infection control practices towards the COVID-19 pandemic among university students in China.

Methods
Using a cross-sectional survey, 4392 students were recruited from six universities in two regions of China.

Methods
Data were collected via an online platform using self-reported questionnaires. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were performed to predict the variables on COVID-19 infection control practices.

Results
Pearson correlation coefficients showed a significant negative relationship between perceived stress and COVID-19 infection control practices. A significant positive relationship was observed between wishful thinking and empathetic responding, and infection control practices. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that gender, geographical location, perceived stress and emotion-focused and relationship-focused coping responses were predictors of COVID-19 infection control practices.

Conclusions
The findings suggest that university students displayed moderate levels of stress, using wishful thinking and empathetic responses as coping strategies. Counselling services should therefore emphasise reassurance and empathy. Male university students tended to be less compliant with social distancing. Both counselling and public health measures should recognise the importance of gender differences. Nurses should integrate these findings into future health programme planning and interventions.
URI: https://repository.cihe.edu.hk/jspui/handle/cihe/3861
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19095327
CIHE Affiliated Publication: No
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