Face Mask Acceptability for Communal Religious Worship During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: Results from the CONFESS Study.

(Public Health England, 2020 ) One study involving 12 singers demonstrated that singing with a surgical face mask reduced the number of generated aerosols to a level similar to normal talking, although this did not reach statistical significance, (Alsved et al., 2020 ) while wearing face masks could reduce the large variability of droplets being produced when singing (Ho and Davies et al., 2021 ).

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We found that increasing age was associated with a lower likelihood of face mask acceptability, both when evaluating age as a continuous variable (unadjusted OR (uOR) for each additional year of age: 0.98 (95% CI 0.97–0.99) p = 0.0050, adjusted OR (aOR): 0.98 (95% CI 0.96–1.00), p = 0.0218) and as categories (aOR for 35–64 years compared to 18–34 years: 0.30 (0.13–0.61) p = 0.0016; aOR for ≥ 65 years compared to 18–34 years: 0.38 (0.14–1.02) p = 0.0619 (borderline significant)).

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