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In the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, compliance to governmental orders is a challenge in the effort to contain the spread of the virus. A cross-sectional study of the Israeli population during the first wave of the outbreak is utilized to elucidate factors that enhance or impede public compliance to the governmental regulation of lockdown and illustrate the practical complexities of staying at home for an elongated time duration.

A structured questionnaire was utilized to investigate compliance with home isolation, factors that enhance and impede compliance, activities engaged during lockdown, personal resilience, and level of individual distress during the first wave of COVID-19 in Israel.

The most salient factors for enhanced compliance were concern for family or self-health (63.4 % and 56.3 % respectively), while deterrence played little role (18.5 %). Desire to maintain a normal life and …