Gu Ming
Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, No. 8 Duke Avenue, Kunshan, Jiangsu, 215316, China.
Division of Social Sciences, Duke Kunshan University, No. 8 Duke Avenue, Kunshan, Jiangsu, 215316, China.
SSM Popul Health. 2024 Jul 4;27:101698. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2024.101698. eCollection 2024 Sep.
The majority of the hospitalizations and deaths associated with COVID-19 occurred in people over the age of 65. In addition, previous studies have shown that intergenerational contacts played a key role in COVID-19-related infection and fatality. This paper utilized two large-scale multinational surveys to uncover the important role of family ties in infection prevention across 93 countries. Using the World Values Survey, we measured country-level family ties emphasizing respondents' view of their parents. We elicited individual willingness to uptake infection prevention measures from a panel study conducted each month in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and July 2021. We find that in countries with stronger family ties, people show more support for non-pharmaceutical interventions and higher vaccine acceptance; moreover, young people are more supportive of mandatory vaccination. The association between strength of family ties and compliance with infection prevention measures was salient before COVID-19 vaccines became available and was persistent before the global vaccination coverage reached 25%.
与新冠病毒相关的住院和死亡病例大多发生在65岁以上人群中。此外，此前的研究表明，代际接触在新冠病毒相关感染和死亡中起关键作用。本文利用两项大规模跨国调查，揭示了家庭关系在93个国家预防感染方面的重要作用。通过世界价值观调查，我们衡量了国家层面的家庭关系，重点关注受访者对其父母的看法。我们从2020年3月至2021年7月新冠疫情早期每月进行的一项小组研究中，获取了个人采取感染预防措施的意愿。我们发现，在家庭关系更紧密的国家，人们对非药物干预措施的支持度更高，疫苗接受度也更高；此外，年轻人更支持强制接种疫苗。在新冠疫苗可用之前，家庭关系强度与遵守感染预防措施之间的关联就很显著，在全球疫苗接种覆盖率达到25%之前，这种关联一直存在。
