Bolarinwa Obasanjo Afolabi, Olagunju Olalekan, Babalola Tesleem, Saeed Balsam Qubais
Department of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Department of Demography and Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria.
J Public Health Res. 2020 Nov 25;9(4):1864. doi: 10.4081/jphr.2020.1864. eCollection 2020 Oct 14.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a highly infectious viral disease that has spread to over one hundred and eight countries, including Nigeria. Governments across the globe have been implementing preventive measures towards curbing the spread and impact of the virus. These measures have continued to interfere with the general lifestyle of the people. Hence, this study was aimed at examining the socio-demographic predictors of adherence to prescribed recommendations and the psychological impacts of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown among Nigerian social media users. This research implemented a cross-sectional survey using an online Google-based questionnaire to elicit required information from potential respondents via social media channels such as WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram and Facebook. An external link to the questionnaire was shared among Nigerian social media users between 1 and 31 April 2020, and a total of 1,131 respondents participated in the survey. The explanatory and outcome variables were displayed by frequency and percentage distribution while chi-square analysis was used to show the relationship between the explanatory and outcome variables at 5% level of significant. The study showed that 99% of the respondents reported to have been following some of the prescribed recommendations, however, only 40.4% of the respondents followed all the recommendations. More than three fifths (63.4%) of the respondents also reported having experienced stressed during the lockdown. Only respondents' professional background (p<0.05) was a predictor of psychological impact of lockdown, other selected socio-demographic characteristics were not predictors of the outcome variables as p>0.05 We concluded that majority of Nigerian social media users were complying to the prescribed recommendations and that younger age group, female respondents and respondents who are more educated had higher proportion of psychological impacts of lockdown, while the medical/scientific background is the only socio-demographic predictor of psychological impacts of COVID-19 lockdown.
冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行是一种极具传染性的病毒性疾病，已蔓延至包括尼日利亚在内的108个以上国家。全球各国政府一直在实施预防措施以遏制该病毒的传播和影响。这些措施持续干扰着人们的总体生活方式。因此，本研究旨在调查尼日利亚社交媒体用户遵守规定建议的社会人口统计学预测因素以及COVID-19大流行封锁的心理影响。本研究采用基于谷歌的在线问卷进行横断面调查，通过WhatsApp、Twitter、Instagram、Telegram和Facebook等社交媒体渠道从潜在受访者那里获取所需信息。问卷的外部链接于2020年4月1日至31日在尼日利亚社交媒体用户中分享，共有1131名受访者参与了调查。解释变量和结果变量通过频率和百分比分布展示，同时使用卡方分析在5%的显著水平下显示解释变量和结果变量之间的关系。研究表明，99%的受访者报告称一直在遵循一些规定建议，然而，只有40.4%的受访者遵循了所有建议。超过五分之三（63.4%）的受访者还报告称在封锁期间经历了压力。只有受访者的职业背景（p<0.05）是封锁心理影响的预测因素，其他选定的社会人口统计学特征不是结果变量的预测因素，因为p>0.05。我们得出结论，大多数尼日利亚社交媒体用户遵守规定建议，较年轻年龄组、女性受访者和受教育程度较高的受访者经历封锁心理影响的比例更高，而医学/科学背景是COVID-19封锁心理影响的唯一社会人口统计学预测因素。
