id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-330758-0mdn06qh Gibson Miller, Jilly Capability, opportunity, and motivation to enact hygienic practices in the early stages of the COVID‐19 outbreak in the United Kingdom 2020-05-16 .txt text/plain 3278 165 44 This study aimed to explore influences on hygienic practices, a set of key transmission behaviours, in relation to the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation‐Behaviour (COM‐B) model of behaviour change (Michie et al., 2011). RESULTS: Using regression models, we found that all three COM‐B components significantly predicted good hygienic practices, with motivation having the greatest influence on behaviour. The British Psychological Society (BPS) Behavioural Science and Disease Prevention Taskforce (BSDPT:, 2020) recommends the exploration of behavioural influences on enacting preventive behaviour in relation to the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation-Behaviour (COM-B) model of behaviour change (Michie et al., 2011) . To explore COM-B influences on behaviour further, we regressed hygienic practices on COM-B subscales (i.e., psychological capability, physical and social opportunity, and reflective and automatic motivation) using OLS. This research explored UK citizens' hygienic practices during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to the COM-B model of behaviour change (Michie et al., 2011) . ./cache/cord-330758-0mdn06qh.txt ./txt/cord-330758-0mdn06qh.txt