. 2020 Sep 10;121:107617. doi: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107617

Table 3.

The mean score of the respondents’ level of concern during food shopping amidst the pandemic. Means with the same superscript letter are significantly different (p < 0.05).

Risk Characteristic		N	Mean^a	SD
(1) To buy food contaminated with the virus	Lebanon	344	3.15^a	1.37
	Jordan	407	3.23	1.11
	Tunisia	315	3.40^a	1.06
	Total	1066	3.25	1.19
(2) To eat food contaminated with the virus	Lebanon	343	3.06^a	1.48
	Jordan	406	3.24	1.17
	Tunisia	312	3.38^a	1.22
	Total	1061	3.23	1.23
(3) To become infected from touching contaminated surfaces	Lebanon	344	3.83^ab	1.17
	Jordan	407	3.55^b	1.10
	Tunisia	313	3.60^a	1.01
	Total	1064	3.66	1.10
(4) To contract the disease by touching contaminated food packages	Lebanon	343	3.63^ab	1.26
	Jordan	407	3.39^b	1.11
	Tunisia	315	3.49^a	1.02
	Total	1065	3.49	1.14
(5) To contract the disease from infected people	Lebanon	345	4.12^ab	1.08
	Jordan	407	3.60^b	1.16
	Tunisia	315	3.77^a	1.07
	Total	1067	3.82	1.13

Means with the same superscript letter are significantly different (p< 0.05).

Mean score of the level of concern on a 5-Likert scale: 1 “not at all concerned”, 2 “Slightly concerned”, 3 “Somewhat concerned”, 4 “Moderately concerned”, 5 “Extremely concerned”.