Adesão às medidas de restrição de contato físico e disseminação da COVID-19 no Brasil
Célia Landmann Szwarcwald, Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Júnior, Déborah Carvalho Malta, Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros, Mônica de Avelar Figueirêdo Mafra Magalhães, Diego Ricardo Xavier, Raphael de Freitas Saldanha, Giseli Nogueira Damacena, Luiz Otávio Azevedo, Margareth Guimarães Lima, Dália Elena Romero, Ísis Eloah Machado, Crizian Saar Gomes, André O. Werneck, Danilo R. Silva, Renata Gracie, Maria de Fátima de Pina
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the adherence of the population to physical contact restriction measures and the spread of COVID-19 in Brazil. METHODS: This was a web-based health survey carried out from April 24 to May 24 2020 using a chain sampling procedure. Intensity of adherence to physical contact restriction measures was analyzed according to sociodemographic characteristics, using logistic regression models to investigate associations with 'No/little adherence'. RESULTS: Of the 45,161 participants, 74.2% (73.8;74.6%) reported intense adherence to the measures. The group that did not adhere to the measures was characterized by men (31.7%), those aged 30 to 49 (36.4%), those with low education levels (33.0%), those who worked during the pandemic (81.3%), those resident in the North (28.1%) and Midwest (28.5%) regions of the country. In Brazil as a whole, there was a decrease in COVID-19 daily growth rates, from 45.4% to 5.0%. CONCLUSION: A large part of the Brazilian population adhered to physical contact restriction measures, which possibly contributed to decreasing the spread of COVID-19.