id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-260407-jf1dnllj	Tang, Catherine So-kum	Factors influencing the wearing of facemasks to prevent the severe acute respiratory syndrome among adult Chinese in Hong Kong	2004-06-11		.txt	text/plain	4503	219	47	This study aimed to determine factors associating with individuals' practice of the target SARS preventive behavior (facemask wearing). Three of the five components of the Health Belief Model, namely, perceived susceptibility, cues to action, and perceived benefits, were significant predictors of facemask-wearing even after considering effects of demographic characteristics. Overall, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, and perceived susceptibility are the three most powerful components of the Health Belief Model in influencing whether individuals practice different preventive behaviors [21, 29, 30] . A logistic regression with odds ratios was conducted to test the efficacy of the Health Belief Model in predicting the wearing of facemasks to prevent SARS. Similar to previous research [15 -26] , this study found the Health Belief Model useful in identifying major determinants of the wearing of facemasks to prevent contracting and spreading SARS. The remaining two components of the Health Belief Model, perceived severity and perceived barriers, were found to be nonsignificant determinants of the target SARS preventive behavior in this study.	./cache/cord-260407-jf1dnllj.txt	./txt/cord-260407-jf1dnllj.txt