Table 4.

Associations between understandings of the causes of climate change and perceived impacts of climate change: results from logistic regression analyses ¹.

Perceived Impacts of Climate Change	Adjusted Odds Ratio (95% Confidence Interval) of Respondents with a High (vs. Low) Level of Understanding on the Causes of Climate Change
	All	Medical	Public Health	Nursing
Climate change is controllable (yes vs. no)	1.68 **	1.83 **	1.38	1.81
	(1.32–2.14)	(1.29–2.60)	(0.85–2.25)	(1.07–3.06)
Overall, climate change is a bad thing (yes vs. no)	2.16 **	1.98 **	2.33	2.94 **
	(1.57–2.96)	(1.24–3.17)	(1.28–4.24)	(1.44–5.99)
Climate change is bad for human health (yes vs. no)	1.83 **	2.18 **	1.47	2.11
	(1.28–2.60)	(1.27–3.75)	(0.75–2.85)	(1.00–4.50)
Health impacts of climate change will be serious in my local community (yes vs. no)	2.07 **	3.45 **	1.16	2.08
	(1.44–2.99)	(1.93–6.17)	(0.62–2.15)	(0.85–5.07)
Health impacts of climate change will be serious in China (yes vs. no)	5.40 **	9.18 **	2.86	5.55
	(2.60–11.24)	(2.65–31.76)	(0.83–9.87)	(1.12–27.49)
Health impacts of climate change will be serious in the world (yes vs. no)	4.00 **	6.30 **	1.97	4.29
	(2.17–7.39)	(2.47–16.02)	(0.68–5.67)	(0.87–21.17)
Ability to recognize health consequences of climate change (high vs. low)	1.30	1.45	1.27	1.22
	(1.04–1.64)	(1.03–2.04)	(0.83–1.95)	(0.74–2.01)

¹ Controlled for influences of region, gender, age, discipline (only in the model involving all respondents), income, and health status. ** Bonferroni adjusted p < 0.01.