Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the U.S. public's health behaviors, attitudes, and policy opinions about COVID-19 in the earliest weeks of the national health crisis (March 20-23, 2020).

Method

We designed and fielded an original representative survey of 3,000 American adults between March 20-23, 2020 to collect data on a battery of 38 health-related behaviors, government policy preferences on COVID-19 response and worries about the pandemic. We test for partisan differences COVID-19 related policy attitudes and behaviors, measured in three different ways: party affiliation, intended 2020 Presidential vote, and self-placed ideological positioning. Our multivariate approach adjusts for a wide range of individual demographic and geographic characteristics that might confound the relationsh

SUBMITTER: Gadarian SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8026027 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature