Table 4.

Factor associated with Fear and rumor scores

	Fear score			Rumor score
	Mean (SD)	β*	P	Mean (SD)	β*	P
Age, mean (SD)	-	0.013	0.194	-	−0.195	<0.0001
Gender, n (%)
Male	15.92 (0.83)	0.511	0.573	38.8 (1.80)	−0.594	0.798
Female	15.44 (0.33)			39.6 (1.77)
Marital status, n (%)
Single	15.55 (0.42)	0.026	0.771	40.24 (1.22)	0.554	0.335
Married	15.93 (0.47)			38.42 (1.34)
Widow	13.70 (0.58)			42.73 (0.67)
Divorced	13.94 (0.42)			41.93 (1.48)
Educational level, n (%)
Illiterate	15.50 (0.94)	0.937	0.001	38.51 (2.28)	−3.57	<0.0001
Elementary	14.55 (0.22)			42.6 (1.28)
Diploma and under diploma	15.30 (0.40)			40.79 (1.07)
Educated	16.27 (0.50)			37.51 (1.32)
Have underling diseases, n (%)	15.51 (0.33)	0.036	0.338	40.49 (0.95)	1.88	0.017
Workplace situation
Indoors and lack of communication with others	15.58 (0.58)	0.030	0.540	40.37 (1.72)	−0.363	<0.0001
Indoors and low contact with others	15.52 (0.44)			40.01 (1.18)
Indoors but high contact to others	15.40 (0.53)			38.55 (1.28)
Outdoors with no social connection	16.19 (0.69)			37.56 (1.78)
Public and crowded places	15.87 (0.40)			39.81 (1.43)
Health centers	15.59 (0.39)			36.54 (0.78)

*Linear regression adjusted based on age, gender, marital status, educational level, underling disease, workplace situation. SD=Standard deviation