Factores relacionados con el cumplimiento de las medidas de distanciamiento social por COVID- 19. Cantón Cuenca. Marzo 2020

Abstract

Background:On February 29, 2020, following the global pandemic alert for COVID-19 declared by the World Health Organization, a quarantine and social distancing ordinance was issued to prevent its spread. Non-compliance with staying at home for economic and social reasons led to an increase in the contagion curve. Objective: to determine factors related to compliance with social distancing measures for COVID-19 in the canton of Cuenca during the month of March 2020. Methodology:A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out during March 2020. The information was obtained from the database of the "International Citizen Project COVID-19 (ICPCOVID)" consisting of 1651 people digitally interviewed. For the analysis of socio-demographic characteristics, frequencies, percentages, average and standard deviation were used. To identify statistical differences, a value of p<0.05 was used. Statistical analysis was performed with Excel V.2016 and SPSS V.15. Results:Of the 1651 people interviewed, 91.33% complied with the social distancing measures and 6.33% did not. The factors that are related to and positively influence compliance with these measures are the following: age in the range of 20 to 29 years 46.70%, level of education: university 52.63%, marital status:single 60.08%, place of residence:urban area 62.27%, occupation:student 52.45% and employment status:unemployed or student 54.27%. Conclusions:The population surveyed had high compliance with the measures of social distancing, the sociodemographic factors that were influential in this behavior were age, level of education, place of residence, occupation and employment estatus.