Table 3.
Factors associated with the adoption of different social distancing measures.
| Factor | Types of social distancing measures | ||||||||||||||
| Generala (n=3431) (Model 1) | Contactb (n=3431) (Model 2) | Workc (n=2160) (Model 3) | |||||||||||||
| aORd (95% CI) | P value | aOR (95% CI) | P value | aOR (95% CI) | P value | ||||||||||
| Age (years) | |||||||||||||||
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18-24 | Reference | N/Ae | Reference | N/A | Reference | N/A | ||||||||
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25-34 | 1.54 (1.16-2.05) | .003 | 0.96 (0.68-1.35) | .81 | 1.00 (0.72-1.39) | .99 | ||||||||
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35-44 | 1.25 (0.93-1.68) | .13 | 0.74 (0.53-1.05) | .09 | 0.95 (0.68-1.33) | .77 | ||||||||
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45-54 | 1.30 (0.95-1.79) | .10 | 0.67 (0.47-0.97) | .03 | 0.72 (0.49-1.05) | .09 | ||||||||
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55+ | 0.99 (0.70-1.41) | .97 | 0.81 (0.55-1.19) | .28 | 0.60 (0.39-0.93) | .02 | ||||||||
| Sex | |||||||||||||||
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Female | Reference | N/A | Reference | N/A | Reference | N/A | ||||||||
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Male | 0.82 (0.71-0.95) | .01 | 0.74 (0.63-0.88) | <.001 | 0.95 (0.78-1.16) | .62 | ||||||||
| Education attainment | |||||||||||||||
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No formal qualification/lower secondary or below | Reference | N/A | Reference | N/A | Reference | N/A | ||||||||
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Secondary level qualification/higher secondary | 0.99 (0.68-1.44) | .96 | 0.96 (0.64-1.44) | .85 | 1.04 (0.46-2.34) | .92 | ||||||||
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Postsecondary but below degree | 1.06 (0.72-1.55) | .78 | 1.12 (0.74-1.71) | .58 | 1.09 (0.48-2.47) | .83 | ||||||||
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Degree or above | 1.27 (0.87-1.83) | .21 | 0.98 (0.66-1.47) | .94 | 1.94 (0.88-4.28) | .10 | ||||||||
| Employment status | |||||||||||||||
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Employed | Reference | N/A | Reference | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
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Full-time student | 1.35 (0.98-1.85) | .07 | 1.08 (0.73-1.59) | .70 | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
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Unemployed | 1.65 (1.30-2.09) | <.001 | 1.20 (0.91-1.58) | .20 | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
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Retired | 1.92 (1.43-2.59) | <.001 | 1.40 (1.03-1.91) | .03 | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
| Setting | |||||||||||||||
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Hong Kong | Reference | N/A | Reference | N/A | Reference | N/A | ||||||||
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United Kingdom | 0.35 (0.30-0.41) | <.001 | 0.08 (0.07-0.10) | <.001 | 0.70 (0.57-0.87) | <.001 | ||||||||
aGeneral: avoiding going to crowded areas; going to social events; and going out.
bContact: avoiding contacting individuals who had a fever or respiratory symptoms and had been to Wuhan in the past month (Hong Kong)/affected areas in the past 14 days (United Kingdom).
cWork: avoiding going to work.
daOR: adjusted odds ratio.
eN/A: not applicable.