Do Canadians have favourable attitudes towards reintroducing mask mandates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9055620 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frédérique Deslauriers (0000-0002-1900-0321, Université du Québec à Montréal), Camille Leger (0009-0004-3672-1616, Université du Québec à Montréal), Simon L Bacon (0000-0001-7075-0358, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal), Kim L Lavoie (0000-0003-2606-1357, Université du Québec à Montréal, corresponding author), on behalf of the iCARE Study team |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1017-1018 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4263 • E-ISSN: 1920-7476 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17269/s41997-023-00805-1 |
| PMID | 37566170 |
| OpenAlex | W4385751187 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Like many countries, Canada faced a triple threat of respiratory illness (COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus) in the fall of 2022, after all COVID-19 measures had been lifted, placing significant pressure on the healthcare system (Tanne, 2022;Wright, 2022).Public health agencies were therefore urging the population to maintain preventive behaviours like masking indoors to help slow the spread of these viruses (Wright, 2022).Mask-wearing has been associated with a lower incidence of COVID-19 and has been shown to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses in general, including COVID-19 (Aravindakshan et al., 2022;Howard et al., 2021;Talic et al., 2021).Although governments recommended mask-wearing indoors, no mandates were reintroduced (Canadian Institute for Health Information, (n.d.); Wright, 2022).This may have been influenced by the perception that the population would reject the mandate, or worse, that it might trigger mass protests (Gaviola, 2022;Montpetit & MacFarlane, 2020).To optimize our COVID-19 responses and future pandemic preparedness, it would be important to determine the population's attitudes towards the reintroduction of mask mandates under conditions of heightened risk, and their socio-demographic predictors
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