Table 1.
Attitude to COVID-19.
| Medical college students |
Non-medical college students |
χ2 | P value** | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males N(%) | Females N(%) | Males N(%) | Females N(%) | |||
| Do you follow the latest news of COVID-19? | ||||||
| Rarely | 0(0) | 0(0) | 0(0) | 0(0) | 2.050 | 0.152 |
| Sometimes | 15(12.7) | 41(15.2) | 15(20.8) | 23(18.0) | ||
| Always | 103(87.3) | 229(84.8) | 57(79.2) | 105(82.0) | ||
| χ 2 | 0.407 | 0.246 | ||||
| P value* | 0.524 | 0.620 | ||||
| Risk perception | ||||||
| Very dangerous | 83(70.3) | 195(72.2) | 48(66.7) | 107(83.6) | 2.327 | 0.127 |
| Moderately dangerous | 35(29.7) | 75(27.8) | 24(33.3) | 21(16.4) | ||
| Not dangerous | 0(0) | 0(0) | 0(0) | 0(0) | ||
| χ 2 | 0.143 | 23.191 | ||||
| P value* | 0.705 | <0.000* | ||||
| Attitude to effective control | ||||||
| Very optimistic | 70(59.3) | 156(57.8) | 50(69.4) | 74(57.8) | 4.935 | 0.085 |
| Cautiously optimistic | 48(40.7) | 114(42.2) | 21(29.2) | 53(41.4) | ||
| Pressimistic | 0(0) | 0(0) | 1(1.4) | 1(0.8) | ||
| χ 2 | 0.081 | 3.041 | ||||
| P value* | 0.776 | 0.219 | ||||
*
Chi-square test for difference between genders.
**
Chi-square test for difference between medical students and non-medical students.