Compliance with COVID-19 restrictions & ways to help improve adherence
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Compliance with COVID-19 restrictions and ways to help improve adherence
IRAS ID
291905
Contact name
Ruth Mellor
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
NHS Lanarkshire
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 2 months, 14 days
Research summary
Why people struggle with COVID-19 restrictions and ways to help improve adherence
The UK is currently experiencing the ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases. The Scottish Government have just introduced a five level protection (restriction) ratings (in force from 2 Nov 2020). Individual health boards are assigned ratings, which then inform the varying restrictions that should be in place for those inhabitants. These ratings will be reviewed as case levels vary over time. At the time of writing NHS Lanarkshire had a relatively high rate of COVID-19 cases and initial protection rating was given at level 3.
This research aims to better understand which COVID-19 restrictions people struggle to comply with and why, what can be done to make it easier to comply with them. Focus groups will be conducted with NHS Lanarkshire residents to better understand their experience of COVID-19 restrictions. The focus groups will be facilitated through existing community groups and networks, and will target, a number of different groups, for example older people, young mums, those with life limiting illness, carers, BMAE community. Furthermore a focus group with test and protect contact tracers will be conducted.
The insights provided through these focus groups will inform targeted NHS Lanarkshire communication strategies, to try and improve compliance with restrictions. Feedback will also be given as appropriate to relevant services/partners i.e. Testing facilities, Test and Protect, Local Authorities Environmental Health Officers, Public Health Department. Findings will be fed back to participants and as they are already part of existing groups, if they highlight ways of improving adherence, we will endeavour to enable them to work with local agencies to improve this.
This research has not received additional funding and will be conducted within existing NHS/ local authority capacity.
REC name
HSC REC B
REC reference
20/NI/0170
Date of REC Opinion
8 Dec 2020
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion