Intentions and Behavioural Determinants in the Face of covid-19: Pandemic: A Theory of Planned Behaviour and Risk Perception Model

Abstract

The containment of covid-19 implied challenges for governments and health authorities to motivate citizens to adopt several prevention behaviours (i.e., wearing a face mask and washing hands frequently). This paper aims to identify the factors that encourage people to adopt these behaviours. Our analysis was conducted over data collected by ascofapsi and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona about attitudes and beliefs related to the pandemic from 919 people from authorities should be particular to each behaviour and consider the associated particular pattern of motivations and the sociodemographic characteristics and possibilities of action.