Table 5. Association between degree of perceived anxiety over radiation exposure and preventive behaviors (multiple answers allowed).
| Total (%) | Degree of perceived anxiety over radiation exposure | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Very much | Somewhat | A little bit | None | p value | |||
| Checking the dose rate and keeping out of high dose areasa | |||||||
| Trend | 0.337 | ||||||
| χ2 test | 0.293 | ||||||
| Yes | 273 (53.3) | 24 (8.8) | 134 (49.1) | 87 (31.9) | 28 (10.3) | ||
| No | 239 (46.7) | 26 (10.9) | 99 (41.4) | 81 (33.9) | 33 (13.8) | ||
| Monitoring external exposureb | |||||||
| Trend | 0.946 | ||||||
| χ2 test | 0.998 | ||||||
| Yes | 349 (68.2) | 34 (9.7) | 159 (45.6) | 115 (33.0) | 41 (11.7) | ||
| No | 163 (31.8) | 16 (9.8) | 74 (45.4) | 53 (32.5) | 20 (12.3) | ||
| Wearing a mask | |||||||
| Trend | 0.744 | ||||||
| χ2 test | 0.336 | ||||||
| Yes | 497 (97.1) | 47 (9.5) | 227 (45.7) | 165 (33.2) | 58 (11.7) | ||
| No | 15 (2.9) | 3 (20.0) | 6 (40.0) | 3 (20.0) | 3 (20.0) | ||
| Wearing a radiation | |||||||
| protection suit | |||||||
| Trend | 0.627 | ||||||
| χ2 test | 0.393 | ||||||
| Yes | 12 (2.3) | 2 (16.7) | 4 (33.3) | 3 (25.0) | 3 (25.0) | ||
| No | 500 (97.7) | 48 (9.6) | 229 (45.8) | 165 (33.0) | 58 (11.6) | ||
aaChecking dose rate of working areas and keeping out of high-dose areas
bMonitoring the total amount of daily external dosage by portable indicator