Track: Case Studies

Abstract

The primary objective of this study is to measure the risk levels of food delivery riders for COVID-19 Infection by looking into the health risk, behavioral risk, exposure risk, and social policy risk. The participants for the study were 30 food delivery riders from the Philippines, and the RIKA assessment tool was utilized. For the statistical treatment of data, the researchers used descriptive statistics for the demographic profiling and correlation analysis for determining the significant relationship between different factors incorporated in the study. In the findings, for the health risks, the risk scale is low in age and comorbidities but high in gender and smoking habit. For the behavioral risks, there is low risk in handwashing, sanitation, social distancing, and trust in government, but the high risk in the use of face masks and anxiety. For exposure risks, there is low risk in residential type and travel history but a high risk in occupation. For social policy risk, the risk scale is low in the effectiveness of lockdown but is high in community compliance. In the correlation, it was established that there is a high correlation between total risk score and sanitizing. There were also moderate correlations between several pairs such as age and face mask, total risk score and age, total risk score and government trust, total risk score and residential, total risk score and travel history, and total risk score and lockdown. Other relationships either had minor or no correlation.