Table 5

Correlations between preventive behaviours and the number of new cases and the total number of cases reported the day before the survey

	Initial phase				Second phase
	Number of new cases		Number of total cases		Number of new cases		Number of total cases
Preventive behaviours	r*	p Value	r*	p Value	r*	p Value	r*	p Value
– Not calculated as data not available in the first three surveys;
*derived from Pearson correlation coefficients.
Wearing a mask	0.965	0.002	0.939	0.006	−0.362	0.549	0.408	0.496
Hand hygiene	0.848	0.033	0.852	0.031	−0.203	0.744	0.471	0.423
Disinfecting home	–	–	–	–	−0.512	0.460	0.378	0.435
Avoid going outside	0.923	0.009	0.951	0.004	0.655	0.230	−0.883	0.047
Avoid crowded places	0.938	0.006	0.887	0.018	0.598	0.287	−0.750	0.144
Avoid visiting hospitals	0.893	0.016	0.809	0.051	0.091	0.884	−0.324	0.595
Avoid using public transportation	0.902	0.014	0.952	0.003	0.894	0.041	−0.936	0.019
Avoid going to work	0.918	0.028	0.937	0.019	0.779	0.121	−0.906	0.034