Public Health Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptability and Health Behaviors in South Africa: Past, Current, and Future Implications (2020–2022)

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NIDS-CRAM surveys: age-specific temporal trends in changing behaviors due to COVID-19^§: (a) wearing mask in public, (b) washing hands frequently, and (c) avoiding crowds/social distancing. ^§aOR, adjusted (for age, sex, ethnicity, education, and employment status) odds ratios for the outcomes (i.e., behavior changes); , expected degrees of freedoms from the semiparametric regression models; PAR (%), percent behavior changes (mask, washing hands or avoiding crowds/social distancing) associated with the vaccine roll-out periods. For example, compared to the “prevaccine” period, those who participated in “postvaccine” period were seven times more likely to report “wearing mask in public”; in a combined study population 52% of the mask users were exclusively associated with postvaccine period.

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