Table 3.
Logistic regression model predicting people's appraisal of health authorities’ management of the SARS crisis
| Variables in the model | Estimated odds ratios [exp(B)] |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Total sample | (b) Seniors | (c) Less educated | (d) Malays | |
| Socio-demographic factors | ||||
| Gender: female (1) | 1.093 | 0.976 | 1.089 | 1.054 |
| Age: 60 years old or older (1) | 0.686 | 0.583 | 0.734 | |
| Ethnicity: Chinese (1) | 1.262 | 3.656 | 2.184 | |
| Marital status: single (1) | 1.083 | 0.118 | 1.291 | 0.721 |
| Place of birth: Singapore (1) | 0.765 | 0.416 | 0.356 | 1.136 |
| Preferred language: Mandarin (1) | 1.722** | 2.353 | 1.667 | |
| Social class factors | ||||
| Education: primary six or lower (1) | 1.016 | 1.199 | 0.532 | |
| Personal income: below S$ 1000 (1) | 0.750 | 0.284 | 0.434 | 0.586 |
| Health behavior | ||||
| Smokes (1) | 0.591** | 0.463 | 0.277** | 0.628 |
| Exercises regularly (1) | 1.236 | 0.636 | 1.156 | 1.372 |
| Less than five preventive measures taken in past 3 days (1) | 1.271 | 2.990 | 2.345* | 2.954** |
| Attitudes | ||||
| Preventive measures adversely affected personal choice and freedom (agree = 1) | 0.766 | 0.295* | 0.678 | 0.852 |
| People should be willing to make some personal sacrifices (agree = 1) | 1.821* | 4.947 | 0.521 | 1.417 |
| People have mostly been socially responsible (agree = 1) | 2.524**** | 3.954 | 7.482*** | 3.293** |
| Have had the chance to express my personal views (agree = 1) | 1.575*** | 1.246 | 0.930 | 2.280 |
| It is appropriate to reveal identities of SARS patients (disagree = 1) | 0.734* | 0.279** | 0.690 | 0.520 |
| Agree to be quarantined for 10 days after having close contact and no symptoms of SARS (1) | 1.525 | 1.946 | 1.636 | 1.151 |
| Agree to be quarantined for 10 days after having non-close contact and no symptoms of SARS (1) | 1.084 | 2.076 | 1.075 | 1.292 |
| Awareness of personal susceptibility to SARS (no awareness = 1) | 0.617*** | 0.345 | 0.447 | 0.386** |
| Perceived severity (high = 1) | 1.059 | 0.816 | 0.874 | 0.916 |
| Perceived health status (excellent/very good = 1) | 1.004 | 1.375 | 0.883 | 1.402 |
| Feels comfortable (1) | 1.492 | 1.692 | 11.851*** | 1.164 |
| Feels contented (1) | 1.096 | 2.860 | 0.263* | 0.873 |
| Feels relaxed (1) | 0.919 | 0.555 | 0.648 | 0.222 |
| Feels happy (1) | 1.277 | 5.170 | 1.613 | 8.181*** |
| Has negative feelings (1) | 1.185 | 2.275 | 0.500 | 1.361 |
| Nagelkerke R2 | 0.139 | 0.437 | 0.338 | 0.290 |
| Variance predicted correct (%) | 77.7 | 84.0 | 80.0 | 80.2 |
Notes: total sample, 1201; seniors, 144; less educated, 230; Malay, 172.
*
Statistically significant at p = 0.04–0.05.
**
Statistically significant at p = 0.01–0.039.
***
Statistically significant at p = 0.001–0.009.
****
Statistically significant at p = 0.0001 or lower.