An outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome: predictors of health behaviors and effect of community prevention measures in Hong Kong, China.

The current global outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) poses an international public health threat.1 Hong Kong, China, remains one of the most severely affected areas. We aimed to identify psychosocial factors associated with SARS preventive health behaviors and to assess whether preventive health behaviors increased after launching SARS community prevention activities.