Table 5.
Predictors of Sufficient Knowledge, a Favorable Attitude and Adequate Practice on COVID-19 in Dessie City, Northeast Ethiopia (N=424)
| Variables | Category | Knowledge | Attitude | Practice | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sufficient | Insufficient | AOR (95% CI) | Positive | Negative | AOR (95% CI) | Adequate | Inadequate | AOR (95% CI) | ||
| Educational status | No formal education | 78 | 27 | 1 | 92 | 13 | 1 | 32 | 73 | 1 |
| Primary education | 101 | 4 | 6.5(2–21.4)* | 103 | 2 | 4.4(0.9–21.4) | 59 | 46 | 1.7(0.9–3.1) | |
| Secondary education | 122 | 0 | *** | 120 | 2 | 4.4(0.9–22.7) | 53 | 69 | 0.9(0.5–1.7) | |
| Diploma & degree | 92 | 0 | *** | 92 | 0 | *** | 67 | 25 | 3(1.5–5.9)** | |
| Telephone | Yes | 368 | 14 | 3.4(1.3–9.1)* | 372 | 10 | 1.3(0.3–5) | 205 | 177 | 3.3(1.2–9.2)* |
| No | 25 | 17 | 1 | 35 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 36 | 1 | |
| Television | Yes | 291 | 7 | 3.8(1.4–10.5)* | 292 | 6 | 1.8(0.5–6.1) | 164 | 134 | 1.2(0.7–2) |
| No | 102 | 24 | 1 | 115 | 11 | 1 | 47 | 79 | 1 | |
| Radio | Yes | 194 | 3 | 4.2(1.1–15.5)* | 193 | 4 | 1.3(0.3–4.8) | 106 | 91 | 0.8(0.5–1.2) |
| No | 199 | 28 | 1 | 214 | 13 | 1 | 105 | 122 | 1 | |
| Social media | Yes | 180 | 2 | 0.7(0.1–4.2) | 179 | 3 | 0.6(0.1–3.2) | 109 | 73 | 1.2(0.7–2.1) |
| No | 213 | 29 | 1 | 228 | 14 | 1 | 102 | 140 | 1 | |
| Knowledge | Sufficient | 384 | 9 | 5.4(1.7–17.2)* | 210 | 183 | 3.8(1.04–13.7)* | |||
| Insufficient | 23 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 1 | ||||
| Attitude | Positive | 384 | 23 | 210 | 197 | 7.7(0.9–63) | ||||
| Negative | 9 | 8 | 1 | 16 | 1 | |||||
| Age | 18–29 | 183 | 9 | 1 | 189 | 3 | 1 | 91 | 101 | |
| 30–39 | 106 | 8 | 1.38(0.34–5.6) | 109 | 5 | 0.4(0.01–2.2) | 60 | 54 | ||
| 40–49 | 58 | 5 | 2.4(0.5–10.7) | 60 | 3 | 0.6(0.1–0.6) | 36 | 27 | ||
| 50–59 | 19 | 2 | 3.8(0.5–27.1) | 18 | 3 | 0.2(0.03–1.3) | 11 | 10 | ||
| ≥60 | 27 | 7 | 2.1(0.5–9.6) | 31 | 3 | 0.7(0.1–4.8) | 13 | 21 | ||
| Sex | Female | 207 | 16 | 217 | 6 | 1 | 106 | 117 | ||
| Male | 186 | 15 | 190 | 11 | 0.5(0.1–1.5) | 105 | 96 | |||
| Occupation | Employed | 96 | 1 | 1 | 96 | 1 | 64 | 33 | 1 | |
| Farmer | 28 | 10 | 2.3(0.15–36) | 32 | 6 | 10 | 28 | 0.14(0.047–0.4)** | ||
| Housewife | 93 | 9 | 0.85(0.07–10) | 101 | 1 | 42 | 60 | 0.28(0.15–0.5)*** | ||
| Merchant | 53 | 3 | 0.8(0.06–10.6) | 53 | 3 | 31 | 25 | 0.73(0.37–1.45) | ||
| Daily laborer | 60 | 6 | 4.5(0.29–69.3) | 62 | 4 | 36 | 30 | 0.6(0.3–1.15) | ||
| Student | 39 | 1 | 0.3(0.01–12.5) | 38 | 2 | 16 | 24 | 0.32(0.14–0.7)** | ||
| Jobless | 24 | 1 | 1.6(0.04–57) | 25 | 0 | 12 | 13 | 0.64(0.26–1.6) | ||
| Religion | Muslim | 239 | 23 | 1 | 251 | 11 | 121 | 141 | ||
| Orthodox | 149 | 8 | 1.1(0.4–3.7) | 151 | 6 | 88 | 69 | |||
| Protestant | 5 | 0 | 0.5(0.0)*** | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |||
Notes: *P-value: < 0.01, **P-value: 0.01˂ 0.05. ***Data does not fulfill X0 assumptions, huge odds ratio.