Table 4.

Keeping of utensils on an elevated position: doer and non-doer Risk, Attitude, Norms, abilities, and Self-regulation psychosocial factors’ mean compared with analysis of variance

Factors	Behavioral factors	Doers, M (SD)	Non-doers, M (SD)	Cohen’s d
Risk factors	Vulnerability†	4.19 (1.27)	3.35 (1.61)	0.58
	Severity	4.37 (0.94)	4.27 (1.04)	n.s.
	Health knowledge	8.78 (2.85)	9.15 (3.27)	n.s.
Attitude factors	Pleasant‡	4.69 (0.88)	4.33 (1.23)	0.35
	Time	1.28 (0.82)	1.21 (0.7)	n.s.
	Effort	1.08 (0.49)	1.21 (0.7)	n.s.
Norm factors	Others’ behavior relatives†	2.99 (1.27)	2.16 (1.06)	0.71
	Others’ behavior village†	2.92 (0.99)	2.19 (0.79)	0.82
	Others’ approval†	4.49 (0.8)	3.83 (1.22)	0.6
	Personal obligation	2.58 (1.92)	2.4 (1.73)	n.s.
Ability factors	Confidence in performance (difficult)†	4.25 (1.34)	3.61 (1.56)	0.44
	Confidence in performance (hurry)†	4.16 (1.42)	3.26 (1.74)	0.57
	Confidence in performance (restart)†	4.63 (0.9)	3.81 (1.54)	0.65
Self-regulation	Commitment (importance)	2.60 (1.94)	2.20 (1.73)	n.s.
	Remembering (forgetting)	1.06 (0.47)	1.19 (0.5)	n.s.
Additional factors	Communication†	3.19 (1.4)	2.53 (1.41)	0.47

n.s. = not significant.

N = 323; Keeping of utensils on a raised place: doers N = 88 and non-doers N = 235. All questions (excluding knowledge questions, which were sum score) included a 5-point Likert scale and response choices from “1—not at all” to “5—very much.”

† P ≤ 0.001.

‡ P ≤ 0.01.