Identifying Targets For Interventions To Support Public Adherence To Government COVID-19-Related Instructions

Adherence to government COVID-19-related instructions is important in preventing, detecting, treating and emerging successfully from the acute phase of the pandemic. Public adherence to instructions has been high but will only remain so as long as people’s capabilities, opportunities and motivations are supported. Policy makers should ensure that strategies are developed that will prevent people’s capabilities, opportunities and motivations from being undermined. Men, younger people, and people with black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds represent important targets for such interventions.