Table 2.

Descriptives and statistical significance of knowledge, perceived severity, perceived fear, perceived susceptibility, and need for information of the general public and HCW

	General public N = 526		Healthcare workers N = 760		p-valuec
	mean or n	SD or %	mean or n	SD or %
Knowledge
Mean sum score (SD)	10.84 (1.97)		13.25 (1.44)		<0.001
High level of knowledgea	328	62.4	560	95.1	<0.001
Perceived severity
Mean score (SD)	4.72 (0.46)		4.74 (0.45)
High level of perceived severityb	516	98.1	746	98.2
Perceived fear
Mean score (SD)	2.94 (0.79)		2.83 (0.73)		<0.05
High level of perceived fearb	116	22.1	121	15.9	<0.01
Perceived susceptibility
Mean score (SD)	3.29 (0.65)		3.25 (0.60)
High level of perceived susceptibilityb	173	32.9	244	32.1
Need for additional information
Category Yes	361	68.6	564	74.2	<0.05

^aHigh level of knowledge is mean sum score is 11 or higher

^bHigh level perceived severity, perceived feelings of concern and perceived susceptibility if scored 4 or 5

^cChi-squared test was used to test statistical significance of group differences for levels/categories, t-test was used to test for group differences for scores