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. 2012 Sep 25;12:338. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-338

Table 2.

Comparison of the risk awareness of 18 different types of public health emergencies between urban and rural primary health care medical staffs (χ ± s, the total score is 5)

Items Urban medical staffs Rural medical staffs Total t P value
Chemical poisoning
2.86 ± 0.01
2.90 ± 0.02
2.88 ± 0.61
1.884
0.060
Food poisoning
3.36 ± 0.73
3.33 ± 0.77
3.35 ± 0.75
−1.131
0.258
Radiological accidents
2.54 ± 0.70
2.58 ± 0.70
2.56 ± 0.70
1.548
0.122
Environmental pollution
3.21 ± 0.76
3.25 ± 0.85
3.23 ± 0.78
1.309
0.191
Nuclear accident
2.05 ± 0.81
2.10 ± 0.86
2.07 ± 0.83
1.833
0.067
Zoonosis
3.01 ± 0.88
3.03 ± 0.63
3.02 ± 0.65
1.130
0.259
Influenza
3.87 ± 0.88
3.85 ± 0.88
3.86 ± 0.88
−0.384
0.701
Cholera
2.84 ± 0.68
2.89 ± 0.65
2.87 ± 0.67
2.182
0.029
Typhoid
2.93 ± 0.64
2.98 ± 0.62
2.95 ± 0.63
2.328
0.020
Avian Influenza
3.07 ± 0.54
3.03 ± 0.57
3.05 ± 0.56
−2.031
0.042
Epidemic encephalitis
2.98 ± 0.56
3.01 ± 0.57
2.99 ± 0.57
1.146
0.252
Epidemic encephalitis B
2.97 ± 0.55
3.04 ± 0.62
3.00 ± 0.58
3.914
0.000
SARS
2.88 ± 0.56
2.86 ± 0.57
2.87 ± 0.57
−1.027
0.304
Plague
2.62 ± 0.67
2.68 ± 0.67
2.65 ± 0.67
2.310
0.021
Anthrax
2.51 ± 0.68
2.58 ± 0.67
2.54 ± 0.67
2.999
0.003
AIDS
3.22 ± 0.75
3.13 ± 0.78
3.15 ± 0.75
−3.651
0.000
Unknown infectious diseases
3.09 ± 0.55
3.08 ± 0.56
3.09 ± 0.56
−0.742
0.458
Other infectious diseases 3.14 ± 0.57 3.16 ± 0.57 3.13 ± 0.57 −0.315 0.753