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. 2021 Feb 23;21:393. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-10418-3

Table 1.

Respondent characteristics and mask usage by selected variables at three time points. Poland 2020; n = 750–818

Variable 11.05 18.05 25.05
Total Mask usage Total Mask usage Total Mask usage
Na 750 % n % p Na 818 % n % p Na 785 % n % p
Gender Female 371 49.5% 294 79.2% 0.0005 434 53.1% 318 73.3% < 0.0001 398 50.7% 284 71.4% 0.0008
Male 379 50.5% 258 68.1% 384 46.9% 226 58.9% 387 49.3% 232 59.9%
Residence Town ≤50,000 inhabitants 395 52.7% 302 40.3% 0.06 445 54.4% 296 36.2% 0.99 387 49.3% 264 33.6% 0.15
Town > 50,000 inhabitants 355 47.3% 250 33.3% 373 45.6% 248 30.3% 398 50.7% 252 32.1%
Region Rb < 0.5 220 29.3% 160 72.7% > 0.65 269 32.9% 164 61.0% > 0.004 277 35.3% 171 61.7% > 0.055
R 0.5–1.0 410 54.7% 302 73.7% 428 52.3% 306 71.5% 389 49.6% 268 68.9%
R > 1.0 120 16.0% 90 75.0% 121 14.8% 74 61.2% 119 15.2% 77 64.7%
Observation Open space 578 78.1% 407 70.4% < 0.0001 585 73.5% 359 61.4% < 0.0001 577 74.5% 351 60.8% < 0.0001
Closed space 162 21.9% 141 87.0% 211 26.5% 179 84.8% 198 25.5% 159 80.3%
Activitya Walking 353 51.5% 261 73.9% < 0.0001 351 47.4% 235 67.0% < 0.0001 368 50.7% 243 66.0% < 0.0001
Playing sports 154 22.4% 97 63.0% 170 23.0% 91 53.5% 150 20.7% 73 48.7%
Shopping 179 26.1% 152 84.9% 219 29.6% 179 81.7% 208 28.7% 167 80.3%

athe number is smaller than the number of the total observations due to the difficulties in classifications

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