Table 1. Descriptive statistics of psychosocial factors.
| Psychosocial factors | Example question | Scale | M(SD) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk | Perceived vulnerability | How high do you feel is the risk that you will get diarrhea if you drink untreated water? | 1–5 | 2.64 (1.49) |
| Health knowledge | Now, I will present you some measures that may help to prevent diarrhea. Please tell me for each option if you feel it is suitable as a preventive measure. | 1–5a | 3.00 (0.88) | |
| Perceived severity (on a child) | Imagine your child below 5 years has diarrhea, how severe would be the impact on his life and development? | 1–5 | 3.59 (1.08) | |
| Attitude | Health benefit | How certain are you that always treating your water will prevent you from getting diarrhea? | 1–5 | 2.97 (1.34) |
| Affective belief (taste) | How much do you like the taste of treated water? | 1–5 | 3.29 (1.45) | |
| Affective belief (enjoy) | How much do you enjoy the moment when you treat your water? | 1–5 | 3.49 (1.22) | |
| Norm | Descriptive | How many of your neighbours treat their water? | 1–5 | 2.06 (0.75) |
| Injunctive | People who are important to you, how do they think you should always treat your water before consumption? | 1–5 | 2.80 (1.19) | |
| Personal | How strongly do you feel an obligation to yourself to always treat your water before consumption? | 1–5 | 3.32 (1.53) | |
| Ability | Confidence in performance | How certain are you that you will always be able to treat your drinking water before drinking? | 1–5 | 3.12 (1.41) |
| Confidence in recovering | Imagine that you have stopped treating your water for several days, how confident are you that you would restart treating your drinking water again)? | 1–5 | 2.72 (1.56) | |
| Confidence in continuation | Imagine that you have much work to do. How confident are you that you can always treat your water? | 1–5 | 2.59 (1.57) | |
| Self-regulation | Action control | How much do you pay attention to the resources needed to treat the water? | 1–5 | 3.09 (1.25) |
| Remembering | Within the last 24 hours: How often did it happen that you intended to treat your water and then forgot to do so? | 1–5 | 2.84 (1.58) | |
| Commitment | How important is it for you to treat the water? | 1–5 | 3.35 (1.34) | |
| Barrier planning | Could you tell me how do you deal with the obstacles that hinder you to treat water? | 0–1b | 0.3 (0.46) | |
M = mean, SD = standard deviation.
a For health knowledge, the scale was based on the number of correct answers given by the respondents
b for barrier planning, 1 = has clear solution, 0 = no clear solution.