Open AccessState-Level Stay-at-Home Orders and Objectively Measured Movement in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Kyle J. Bourassa
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychosomatic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.62
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 1534-7796
pISSN - 0033-3174
DOI - 10.1097/psy.0000000000000905
Subject(s) - social distance , pandemic , covid-19 , mile , demography , gerontology , psychological intervention , medicine , psychology , geography , sociology , disease , nursing , geodesy , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Social distancing has been one of the primary interventions used to slow the spread of COVID-19 during the ongoing pandemic. Although statewide stay-at-home orders in the United States received a large degree of media and political attention, relatively little peer-reviewed research has examined the impacts of such orders on social distancing behaviors.