Table II.
Multivariate logistic regression analysis of odds ratio for practices and attitudes of healthcare workers in relation to potential risk factors
| Variables | Practices, OR (95% CI) |
Attitudes, OR (95% CI) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maintained quarantine with family | Participation in training | Always remove protective equipment carefully | Frequency of hand washing | Level of fear of COVID-19 | Feelings of fatigue after the outbreak | Confidence in defeating the virus | Patients should disclose their exposure | |
| Gender (ref.: female) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Male | 0.95 (0.75–1.20) | 0.98 (1.77–1.24) | 1.18 (0.94–1.49) | 1.14 (0.86–1.51) | 1.22 (0.89–1.67) | 1.22 (0.89–1.67) | 0.84 (0.56–1.26) | 1.22 (0.94–1.59) |
| Educational attainment (ref.: junior college and below) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| College | 0.88 (0.65–1.19) | 1.06 (0.78–1.44) | 1.11 (0.82–1.50) | 0.71 (0.49–1.02) | 0.87 (0.57–1.31) | 0.87 (0.57–1.31) | 0.86 (0.53–1.41) | 0.95 (0.68–1.33) |
| Postgraduate | 0.57 (0.37–0.87) | 1.01 (0.66–1.55) | 2.12∗∗∗ (1.39–3.24) | 0.90 (0.54–1.50) | 1.09 (0.61–1.93) | 1.09 (0.61–1.93) | 0.47 (0.23–1.06) | 1.08 (0.67–1.74) |
| Overworked (ref.: yes) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| No | 0.99 (0.76–1.30) | 0.99 (0.76–1.30) | 1.03 (0.79–1.35) | 0.71∗ (0.51–0.98) | 0.66 (0.46–0.96) | 0.66∗ (0.46–0.96) | 0.80 (0.50–1.27) | 0.87 (0.65–1.17) |
| Job category (ref.: doctors) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Nurses | 1.37 (0.10–1.87) | 1.14 (0.83–1.56) | 0.93 (0.68–1.27) | 0.87 (0.61–1.30) | 0.81 (0.54–1.23) | 0.81 (0.54–1.23) | 1.07 (0.63–1.82) | 0.94 (0.67–1.33) |
| Paramedics | 0.87 (0.62–1.23) | 0.71 (0.50–1.01) | 1.03 (0.74–1.45) | 0.64∗ (0.41–1.0) | 0.44∗∗ (0.26–0.75) | 0.44∗∗ (0.26–0.75) | 0.94 (0.51–1.75) | 0.99 (0.68–1.45) |
| Work experience (ref.: <5 years) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 5–9 years | 1.54∗∗ (1.16–2.05) | 1.32 (1.0–1.75) | 0.72∗ (0.54–0.96) | 1.42 (1.0–2.01) | 0.64∗ (0.43–0.95) | 0.64∗ (0.43–0.95) | 0.77 (0.48–1.31) | 0.56∗∗∗ (0.41–0.77) |
| >10 years | 0.73∗ (0.55–0.96) | 0.69∗∗ (0.52–0.91) | 1.0 (0.76–1.31) | 1.36 (0.97–1.92) | 1.13 (0.79–1.62) | 1.131 (0.79–1.62) | 0.76 (0.47–1.23) | 0.60∗∗ (0.44–0.82) |
| Frontline status (ref.: frontline) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Non-frontline | 0.75∗ (0.59–0.94) | 0.55∗∗∗ (0.43–0.69) | 0.90 (0.71–1.13) | 0.82 (0.62–1.08) | 0.97 (0.71–1.33) | 0.97 (0.71–1.33) | 0.56∗∗ (0.38–0.84) | 1.09 (0.84–1.41) |
| Knowledge (scored as a continuous variable) | 1.14 (0.99–1.31) | 1.14 (0.99–1.31) | 0.96 (0.84–1.10) | 0.91 (0.77–1.07) | 0.99 (0.82–1.19) | 0.99 (0.83–1.19) | 1.41∗∗ (1.12–1.77) | 1.217∗ (1.04–1.42) |
OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.
∗P < 0.05; ∗∗P < 0.01; ∗∗∗P < 0.001.