11 October 2020 : Clinical Research
Factors Affecting Infection Control Behaviors to Prevent COVID-19: An Online Survey of Nursing Students in Anhui, China in March and April 2020
Ting Yuan1BCDEFG, Huan Liu2ACE*, Xiang Dong Li3BCEF, Hai Rong Liu4ACDEDOI: 10.12659/MSM.925877
Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e925877
Table 7 Multinomial logistic regression analysis of the factors affecting preventive behavior level toward COVID-19 among the nursing students (N=613).
Variables | N | Preventive behavior level | ||||||||
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Seldom | Sometimes | Often | ||||||||
OR | 95% CI | P | OR | 95% CI | P | OR | 95% CI | P | ||
Age | 613 | 1.51 | 1.08, 2.10 | 0.02* | 1.01 | 0.93, 1.11 | 0.78 | 1.01 | 1.08, 2.10 | 0.80 |
eHEALS | 613 | 0.83 | 0.78, 0.88 | 0.00** | 0.89 | 0.87, 0.91 | 0.00** | 0.95 | 0.78, 0.88 | 0.00** |
Knowledge | 613 | 0.74 | 0.64, 0.85 | 0.00** | 0.89 | 0.84, 0.94 | 0.00** | 0.92 | 0.64, 0.85 | 0.00** |
Attitude | 613 | 0.32 | 0.13, 0.78 | 0.01* | 0.24 | 0.19, 0.32 | 0.00** | 0.64 | 0.13, 0.78 | 0.00** |
Male | 706 | 2.37 | 0.88, 6.33 | 0.09 | 1.44 | 1.07, 1.95 | 0.02* | 0.86 | 0.88, 6.33 | 0.22 |
Female | 1625 | Ref | Ref | Ref | ||||||
City | 868 | 0.09 | 0.03, 0.30 | 0.00** | 0.30 | 0.23, 0.41 | 0.00** | 0.41 | 0.03, 0.30 | 0.00** |
Countryside | 1463 | Ref | Ref | Ref | ||||||
Health status=good | 1933 | 0.21 | 0.04, 1.17 | 0.08 | 0.51 | 0.18, 1.47 | 0.21 | 0.47 | 0.04, 1.17 | 0.13 |
Health status=Neither good nor bad | 325 | 0.59 | 0.09, 3.97 | 0.59 | 0.88 | 0.29, 2.67 | 0.83 | 0.64 | 0.09, 3.97 | 0.38 |
Health status=bad | 73 | Ref | Ref | Ref | ||||||
* ** Ref – reference level; OR – odds ratio; CI – confidence interval. |