Smith Louise E, Potts Henry Ww, Amlȏt Richard, Fear Nicola T, Michie Susan, Rubin G James
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response, UK.
Environ Health Insights. 2021 May 14;15:11786302211015588. doi: 10.1177/11786302211015588. eCollection 2021.
Ventilating indoor spaces helps prevent COVID-19 transmission. We investigated self-reported rates of opening windows to improve ventilation in the home, perceived effectiveness of opening windows, and confidence that if you wanted to, you could open windows. One in 6 people reported rarely, if ever, opening windows in their home in the last week. Three in 4 people knew that opening windows to improve ventilation was an effective way to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and 5 in 6 were confident that they could open windows in their home. Official messaging should continue to seek to improve knowledge about the effectiveness of ventilation for reducing COVID-19 transmission, and increase the frequency of window opening.
对室内空间进行通风有助于预防新冠病毒传播。我们调查了自我报告的在家开窗以改善通风的比例、对开窗效果的认知以及是否相信自己有能力开窗。六分之一的人表示在过去一周里,他们在家中很少开窗,甚至从未开窗。四分之三的人知道开窗改善通风是预防新冠病毒传播的有效方法,六分之五的人相信自己能够在家中开窗。官方信息应继续致力于提高人们对通风在减少新冠病毒传播方面有效性的认识,并增加开窗频率。