A team of three students from NYU’s Management of Public Health Disasters course explain the results of their analysis on the levels of community adherence in the case of COVID-19.
In their study, 53 Qualtrics survey answers were collected and the respondents’ demographics were analyzed. The team found that a majority of the respondents are white (39.62%), female (68%), with Bachelor’s degree(s) (38%), between the age of 25-34 (49.06%), have received a booster (84.91%), and had been told they had contracted Covid-19(67.92%). The results showed the group that expressed concern for COVID-19 had the highest rate of self-rated compliance (57.14%), while those who were moderately concerned had the highest rate of personally knowing someone who was hospitalized for COVID-19. A majority of the respondents identified COVID-19 as the “biggest threat to health” and identified CDC as the most trusted source for public health information (47.06%).
Well-educated adults demonstrated the highest level of adherence to public health measures taken to address COVID-19. Despite their trust in the CDC, individuals with high levels of education “remain distrustful that the US is ready for the next pandemic.”