Study Findings on COVID-19 Described by Researchers at Chinese Academy of Sciences (More than just a mental stressor: psychological value of social distancing in COVID-19 mitigation through increased risk perception-a preliminary study in China)

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2021 MAY 05 (NewsRx) - By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily - New research on coronavirus is the subject of a new report. According to news originating from the Chinese Academy of Sciences by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Social distancing is an effective measure to prevent epidemic infections during a pandemic outbreak, but its psychological value in COVID-19 pandemic mitigation remained less detected." Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Chinese Academy of Sciences: "Our study fills this gap by conducting a nationwide survey in China between 12 and 25 February (2020), and a follow-up survey targeting the same participants between 25 and 28 March (2020). We have discovered that perceived increased time staying at home, a subjective agency for social distancing, positively predicts not only risk perception of COVID-19 epidemic at the outbreak and eased stage, but also predicts subjective controllability of COVID-19 epidemic at the eased stage."