Application of the protection motivation theory to understand determinants of compliance with the measure of banning gathering size >4 in all public areas for controlling COVID-19 in a Hong Kong Chinese adult general population

• Yanqiu Yu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Health Behaviours Research, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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• Mason M. C. Lau,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Centre for Health Behaviours Research, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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• Joseph T. F. Lau

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jlau@cuhk.edu.hk

  Affiliations Centre for Health Behaviours Research, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, School of Psychiatry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2344-7107

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