Psycho-social factors associated with the nationwide lockdown in India during COVID- 19 pandemic

To investigate the psycho-social factors associated with COVID-19 and the nationwide lockdown in India. An online survey was conducted from April 11 through April 16, 2020 in 28 states and 8 union territories (UT) of India. The potential participants were recruited using snowball sampling procedure. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted among the people of all states in India. A spatial analysis was performed and Moran's I statistic was applied to investigate the overall clustering of locations. Fisher's exact test was used to investigate associations. GeoDa and R console were used to analyze the data. A total of 1316 responses were received. Those worried for their family's health were likely to follow the lockdown measures(p