TABLE 4.

Multilogistic-regression-based results for belief in media’s response to COVID-19.

Dependent variables	Independent variables	Odds ratio (Std. Errors)	p-value	Adjusted p-value	Chi square
Belief in media’s response to COVID-19 (base category “very good”)
	Media’s response (poor)
	Gender (female)	0.576 (0.218)	0.011*	0.020	6.350
	Age	0.902 (0.052)	0.048*	0.048	3.880
	Mother’s education under matriculation	3.343 (0.482)	0.012*	0.020	6.260
	Media’s response (fair)
	Mother’s education postgraduate or above	0.348 (0.491)	0.032*	0.048	4.600
	Mother’s education under matriculation	3.842 (0.465)	0.003*	0.015	8.360
Un-adjusted R-square			0.088
Effect likelihood ratio tests
Independent Variables			Prob. > Chi square
Gender			0.014*
Whole model test
Difference (−loglikelihood)			0.0388*
Omitted variable test
Model			0.5408
Test of parallel lines
Difference (−2loglikelihood)			< 0.0001*

^∗p < 0.05.