This study aims to investigate people’s attitudes and behaviours in response to the public health recommendations for social distancing and isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many reports suggest suboptimal adherence to these measures that represent the cornerstone of efforts to reduce the spread of the virus. Public health recommendations are changing periodically, and we are interested in assessing how variations at different time points and geographic areas affect people’s responses during discrete periods of time and how attitudes and behaviours might differ as a function of messaging about preventing the transmission of COVID-19. This information will be made available to policymakers to tailor public health messages and recommendations with the goal of increasing adherence to these important preventive behaviours.

We are no longer recruiting participants for this study. Thank you to all who participated. This study has been published in PLoS One, an open-access peer-reviewed journal. Click here to see the results:

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