4-5-2020 - 1-2-2022
bron afbeelding: CDC.gov
Motives and barriers for complying with ‘sexual distancing’ among men who have sex with men during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Amsterdam.
To elucidate the motives and barriers for social and sexual distancing (non)adherence using a semi structured questionnaire.
In the current study we use the results from the previous qualitative study as a framework. We want to explore different factors that lead to sexual distancing compliance or non-compliance in different periods in the COVID-19 pandemic using a quantitative questionnaire. The questionnaire will be available to male and female visitors to the STI clinic and dating apps such as tinder and grindr. The questionnaire will cover different subjects about behavior during different periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. We will focus especially on the communication around COVID-19 and the measures and find out how these factors have influenced the participants behavior leading to compliance or non-compliance to the measures. We want to compare the answers in different periods of the pandemic and examine if and how behavior and compliance has changed.
Insight in participants social- and sexual distancing behavior and their opinion regarding the measures and the communication around measures and COVID-19 during different periods of the COVID-19 pandemic is required to improve communication about preventive measures and design interventions to curb transmission of droplet and air borne infections in the current and in future epidemics.
Based on these results, we hope to provide advices on current measures and the provision of the information around the measures leading to better compliance for the next COVID-19 wave or a future epi- or pandemic in which social- and sexual distancing is advised.