Parental affordability and willingness to pay for universal masking amongst government school students in Kuching, Sarawak.

Introduction: Financial affordability to purchase commodities for disease prevention is an important public health issue. The objective of this paper is to report the financial affordability and willingness to pay amongst the parents of government students for their children's nonmedical mask use, using a newly created Household Face Mask Affordability Questionnaire (MAQ).

Materials And Methods: This was a cross-sectional study involving the parents or guardians of 50.