The first paper from the UCSD-funded COPE Study has been published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Authored by Katherine (Kate) Anderson and Dr. Jamila K. Stockman, “Staying Home, Distancing, and Face Masks: COVID-19 Prevention among U.S. Women in The COPE Study” explores prevention behaviors that are critical to minimizing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the U.S., to ultimately reduce the health, social, and economic burdens of COVID-19. The authors acknowledge that health behavior decision-making is complex, and that women may provide pro-prevention behavior modeling to their networks, emphasizing the need to understand how to increase prevention behaviors among women in the U.S.
