ISSN: 2578-5095
Authors: Shafti SS*
Although vaccination is the first-line strategy controlling and preventing SARS-CoV-2, personal protective measures, such as wearing facemasks, are also important preventive behaviors to reduce the risk of becoming infected with viral infections during a pandemic. While medication non-compliance is a common issue for clinicians, non-compliance with shielding measures, like wearing facemasks, for prevention of infection in healthcare and community settings is rather a new problem. On the other hand, while medication non-adherence has more an individual characteristic, non-compliance with protective methods for prevention of contamination has more a social feature. In this regard, though, maybe, neither of existing shielding measures nor the proposed strategies may promise a complete protection against the biotic dangers, certainly acting in accordance with the safety methods will increase the popular protection and health. But, why some of the people avoid shielding exercises and what is wrong with the reasonableness and awareness that is expected to be revealed by all citizens? How the morbid cycle of spreading of communicable diseases can be obstructed or weakened when the masses do not have faith in favorable recommendations that are issued by the most authentic universal administrations, like World Health Organization, or the reliable and answerable native health executives. In the present article, after reviewing the background of non-compliance in medicine, and chronology of wearing facemasks for prevention of infection in community settings, the route of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), and evidential analysis of community masking has been talked over. In addition, after appraisal of plausible interconnected psychodynamic and/or psychopathologic factors, the problem solving strategies, like increasing awareness through education and feedback, and necessity of collaboration between health care practitioners and people, has been stressed. While the promotion of compliance must be the responsibility of both the health care professional and the populace, right interventions for targeting public misunderstandings about recommended shielding maneuvers can reduce preventable infection rates during pandemic, and no longer must the people be viewed as the only guilty party.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Pandemic; Non-Compliance; Masks; Facemasks; Protection of the Wearer; Source Control; Community Transmission
