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)**
Would you say the general state of the epidemic in the US is:
Worsening	1
Improving	0.22 (0.096, 0.48)***
Do you believe you have had the swine flu?
No	1
Yes	3.6 (1.2, 11)*
Age
Under 50	1
50 or over	0.44 (0.25, 0.76)**
Gender
Female	1
Male	0.53 (0.30, 0.95)*

^*p ≤ 0.05,

^**p ≤ 0.01,

^***p ≤ 0.001