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. 2021 Mar 1;21:426. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-10461-0

Table 5.

Multiple linear regression for demographic, predisposing, pre-motivational, motivational factors predicting hand hygiene behaviour

Model 1: Sociodemographic Model 2: Socio-demographic, predisposing, and pre-motivational Model 3: Socio-demographic, predisposing, pre-motivational and motivational
Standardized Coefficients p Standardized Coefficients p Unstandardized Coefficients Standardized Coefficients p a
Beta Beta B (SE) Beta (95% BCa CI) a
(Constant) < 0.001 0.954 −0.1 (0.52)
Socio-demographic
 Gender (Female/Male) −0.23 < 0.001 −0.09 0.055 −0.13 (0.07) − 0.09 (− 0.2, 0.01) 0.068
 Age 0.02 0.801 −0.04 0.430 −0.004 (0.01) −0.04 (− 0.15, 0.07) 0.474
 Student Status (UK/International) −0.09 0.143 −0.01 0.803 −0.01 (0.1) − 0.01 (− 0.1, 0.08) 0.880
 Health Course − 0.01 0.824 0.00 0.987 −0.005 (0.08) 0 (−0.1, 0.1) 0.944
 Ethnicity (Minorities/White) −0.17 0.007 −0.13 0.009 −0.22 (0.08) −0.13 (− 0.24, − 0.02) 0.014
 Infection exposure 0.08 0.191 0.01 0.818 0.01 (0.07) 0.01 (−0.1, 0.12) 0.896
Predisposing factors
 Habit 0.40 < 0.001 0.31 (0.05) 0.39 (0.26, 0.51) 0.001
 Time factors 0.28 < 0.001 0.28 (0.07) 0.28 (0.14, 0.42) 0.001
Pre-motivational factors
 Disease knowledge 0.00 0.941 0.004 (0.04) 0 (−0.09, 0.11) 0.930
 Hand hygiene effectiveness knowledge −0.07 0.146 −0.06 (0.05) − 0.07 (− 0.16, 0.03) 0.133
 Risk perception 0.14 0.003 0.06 (0.02) 0.13 (0.02, 0.24) 0.016
Motivational factors
 Self-efficacy- infection avoidance −0.01 (0.02) −0.02 (− 0.13, 0.08) 0.722
 Attitude −0.02 (0.04) − 0.04 (− 0.16, 0.11) 0.562
 Self-efficacy - hand hygiene 0.04 (0.07) 0.03 (−0.09, 0.14) 0.633

Abbreviations: BCa CI Bias corrected accelerated confidence intervals, SE standard error. Bold: significance p < 0.05

a Model 3 was calculated using 1000 bootstrap samples for robustness, for 95% BCa CI and p values

Model 1: R2 = 0.082, adjusted R2 = 0.061; Model 2: R2 = 0.452, adjusted R2 = 0.429, △ R2 p < 0.001; Model 3: R2 = 0.453, adjusted R2 = 0.423, △ R2 p = 0.866