Table 4. Comparison of respondent attitudes between CCHF-endemic villages and non–CCHF-endemic villages in survey of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Kazakhstan* .
| Attitudes |
CCHF-endemic, n = 442 |
Non–CCHF-endemic, n = 506 |
p value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. respondents† |
% Respondents (95% CI) |
|
No. respondents† |
% Respondents (95% CI) |
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| Among all persons | ||||||
| Ticks are a problem in the community | 0.05 | |||||
| Major problem | 410 | 95.3 (89.9–97.9) | 408 | 86.6 (67.8–95.2) | ||
| Minor problem | 4 | 0.7 (0.2–3.0) | 13 | 2.1 (0.8–5.6) | ||
| Not a problem | 3 | 0.6 (0.1–3.1) | 52 | 5.0 (1.0–21.9) | ||
| Don’t know | 23 | 3.4 (1.2–9.0) | 33 | 6.4 (2.7–14.4) | ||
| People in my community frequently get bitten by ticks | 0.74 | |||||
| Often | 245 | 49.0 (19.4–79.3) | 187 | 33.5 (12.2–64.7) | ||
| Occasionally | 24 | 7.4 (1.3–32.2) | 94 | 13.3 (5.4–29.4) | ||
| Rarely | 149 | 40.4 (17.7–68.1) | 202 | 50.2 (20.7–79.5) | ||
| Don’t know |
22 |
3.2 (1.4–7.2) |
|
23 |
3.0 (0.7–12.1) |
|
| Among persons who have heard of CCHF |
n = 420 |
|
n = 371 |
|
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| CCHF is a problem in the community | 0.12 | |||||
| Major problem | 401 | 96.2 (90.0–98.6) | 326 | 93.7 (82.7–97.9) | ||
| Minor problem | 3 | 0.7 (0.2–3.1) | 9 | 1.9 (0.5–6.6) | ||
| Not a problem | 1 | 0.1 (0–0.5) | 26 | 2.7 (0.5–13.5) | ||
| Don’t know | 15 | 3.0 (1.1–8.4) | 10 | 1.7 (0.5–6.1) | ||
| CCHF is something I should be worried about | 0.01 | |||||
| Very worried | 371 | 86.1 (72.5–93.5) | 317 | 93.6 (83.5–97.7) | ||
| Somewhat worried | 40 | 11.5 (4.2–27.8) | 19 | 2.6 (0.9–7.4) | ||
| Not worried | 1 | 0.02 (0–0.2) | 25 | 2.5 (0.4–13.9) | ||
| Don’t know | 8 | 2.4 (0.4–12.4) | 10 | 1.2 (0.2–7.1) | ||
| I can protect myself from CCHF | <0.01 | |||||
| Yes | 380 | 90.5 (82.5–95.0) | 191 | 52.5 (33.6–70.6) | ||
| No | 4 | 0.7 (0.2–3.2) | 100 | 22.7 (8.3–48.8) | ||
| Don’t know | 36 | 8.9 (4.2–17.9) | 80 | 24.8 (12.6–43.0) | ||
| I would welcome a CCHF survivor into my community | 379 | 89.2 (79.7–94.5) | 348 | 94.2 (87.9–97.4) | 0.17 | |
*CCHF, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever. †Percentage weighted by calculating the inverse probability of selection and applying a poststratification adjustment to each stratum to account for nonresponses.