Portugal COVID-19 Snapshot MOnitoring (COSMO Portugal): Monitoring knowledge, risk perceptions, preventive behaviours, and public trust in the current coronavirus outbreak in Portugal

In the current pandemic outbreak of the newly coronavirus, it is of extreme importance monitoring the public perceptions of risk, protective behaviours, trust, knowledge and the recognition between truth and false information as well as to enable health authorities, the media, and health organizations to implement adequate and dynamic responses (WHO,2020). The study is cross-sectional and the main objectives are i) to participate in an international multicenter study (COSMO) with the European Portuguese population ii) to analyze the relations between sociodemographic variables, risk perceptions, knowledge and preventive behaviors, and iii) to assess how misinformation and correct information are perceived iv) to identify if protective behaviours are misunderstanding v) to inform results to health authorities and media.