Table 2.
Perceived Impacts of Climate Change | Medical (n = 644) |
Public Health (n = 430) |
Nursing (n = 313) |
All (n = 1387) |
p | ||||
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n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | ||
Climate change is controllable | 418 | 64.9 | 321 | 74.7 | 196 | 62.6 | 935 | 67.4 | <0.01 |
Overall, climate change is bad | 546 | 84.8 | 359 | 83.5 | 253 | 80.8 | 1158 | 83.5 | 0.30 |
Climate change is bad for human health | 575 | 89.3 | 381 | 88.6 | 266 | 85.0 | 1222 | 88.1 | 0.15 |
Climate change will be serious in my local community | 576 | 89.4 | 368 | 85.6 | 282 | 90.1 | 1226 | 88.4 | 0.09 |
Climate change will be serious in China | 619 | 96.1 | 413 | 96.1 | 298 | 95.2 | 1330 | 95.9 | 0.79 |
Climate change will be serious in the world | 609 | 94.6 | 410 | 95.4 | 299 | 95.5 | 1318 | 95.0 | 0.76 |
Health consequences of climate change | |||||||||
Air quality-related illness | 604 | 93.8 | 413 | 96.1 | 299 | 95.5 | 1316 | 94.9 | 0.22 |
Heat-related illness | 596 | 92.6 | 407 | 94.9 | 283 | 90.4 | 1286 | 92.8 | 0.07 |
Disruption of health services by extreme weather events | 585 | 90.8 | 396 | 92.1 | 282 | 90.1 | 1263 | 91.1 | 0.62 |
Cold-related illness | 570 | 88.5 | 385 | 89.5 | 276 | 88.2 | 1231 | 88.8 | 0.82 |
Flooding-related displacement | 550 | 85.5 | 375 | 87.4 | 259 | 82.8 | 1184 | 85.5 | 0.20 |
Illness related with shortage of water supply | 556 | 86.5 | 352 | 82.2 | 269 | 86.2 | 1177 | 85.1 | 0.13 |
Vector-borne infectious disease | 541 | 84.0 | 359 | 83.9 | 249 | 79.8 | 1149 | 83.0 | 0.23 |
Water-borne infectious disease | 544 | 84.6 | 328 | 76.6 | 249 | 79.6 | 1121 | 81.0 | <0.01 |
Other health impacts of climatic change | 479 | 76.4 | 348 | 82.1 | 234 | 76.0 | 1061 | 78.1 | 0.06 |
Food-borne disease | 472 | 73.4 | 250 | 58.1 | 226 | 72.2 | 948 | 68.4 | <0.01 |
Mental health conditions | 443 | 68.8 | 255 | 59.3 | 185 | 59.1 | 883 | 63.7 | <0.01 |
Malnutrition | 282 | 43.9 | 141 | 32.8 | 117 | 37.4 | 540 | 39.0 | <0.01 |
Total score (Mean ± SD) | 9.70 ± 2.39 | 9.36 ± 2.20 | 9.36 ± 2.27 | 9.52 ± 2.31 | 0.03 |