This brief report documents the results of a survey that measured the public’s and doctors’ perceived effectiveness of preventive behaviors against COVID-19, in Japan. Medical doctors (n = 117) and the general public (n = 1086) participated in our online survey. The results of the analysis of mean scores indicate that there were only slight differences in perceived effectiveness between the two groups, while the differences in distributions were remarkable. The results of Silverman’s test suggest the unimodality of doctors’ responses and multimodality of the public’s responses. Implications of the findings to combat the risk of infection are discussed.

这份简短的报告记录了一项调查的结果，该调查衡量了日本公众和医生对 COVID-19 预防行为的感知效果。医生 ( n  = 117) 和公众 ( n  = 1086) 参与了我们的在线调查。平均分分析结果表明，两组的感知有效性仅存在微小差异，但分布差异显着。Silverman 的测试结果表明，医生的反应是单模态的，公众的反应是多模态的。讨论了研究结果对对抗感染风险的影响。