Table VII.
Variables correlated with Perceived Susceptibility to H1N1 : Odds ratios of believing oneself likely to contract H1N1 infection given the responses to other survey questions.
| How likely do you think you are to contract the swine flu? | |
|---|---|
| Neutral, Likely, or Very likely (vs. Very unlikely or Unlikely) | |
| Odds Ratio (95% CI) | |
| How much news coverage of the swine flu have you seen in the past few weeks? | |
| Very little or Some | 1 |
| A lot | 2.2 (1.3, 3.8)** |
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| |
| Would you say the general state of the epidemic in the US is: | |
| Worsening | 1 |
| Improving | 0.22 (0.096, 0.48)*** |
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| |
| Do you believe you have had the swine flu? | |
| No | 1 |
| Yes | 3.6 (1.2, 11)* |
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| |
| Age | |
| Under 50 | 1 |
| 50 or over | 0.44 (0.25, 0.76)** |
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| Gender | |
| Female | 1 |
| Male | 0.53 (0.30, 0.95)* |
p ≤ 0.05,
p ≤ 0.01,
p ≤ 0.001