Table 6.
Setting-specific effects and effect modification (by setting) of anxiety level on the adoption of social distancing measures. The models have been adjusted for all covariates.
Settings and variables |
Types of social distancing | |||||||||||||||||
Model 4.3 | Model 5.3 | Model 6.3 | ||||||||||||||||
Generala (n=3431) | Contactb (n=3431) | Workc (n=2160) | ||||||||||||||||
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aORd (95% CI) | P value | aOR (95% CI) | P value | aOR (95% CI) | P value | ||||||||||
Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||
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Normal | Reference | N/Ae |
Reference | N/A |
Reference | N/A |
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Borderline abnormal | 1.62 (1.27-2.06) | <.001 | 1.26 (0.93-1.70) | .14 | 1.51 (1.10-2.06) | .01 | |||||||||||
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Abnormal | 2.09 (1.64-2.66) | <.001 | 1.85 (1.34-2.56) | <.001 | 1.82 (1.34-2.48) | <.001 | |||||||||||
United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||
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Normal | Reference | N/A |
Reference | N/A |
Reference | N/A |
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Borderline abnormal | 1.48 (1.11-1.96) | .01 | 1.36 (1.02-1.80) | .03 | 1.37 (0.92-2.02) | .12 | |||||||||||
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Abnormal | 2.40 (1.87-3.09) | <.001 | 1.76 (1.37-2.27) | <.001 | 1.40 (0.99-1.98) | .06 | |||||||||||
Effect modificationf (borderline abnormal) | 0.91 (0.63-1.33) | .64 | 1.08 (0.71, 1.63) | .71 | 0.91 (0.55-1.49) | .70 | ||||||||||||
Effect modification (abnormal) | 1.15 (0.82-1.62) | .42 | 0.95 (0.63-1.42) | .80 | 0.77 (0.48-1.21) | .26 |
aGeneral: avoiding going to crowded areas and social events and going out.
bContact: avoiding contacting individuals who had a fever or respiratory symptoms and had been to Wuhan in the past one month (Hong Kong) or affected areas in the past 14 days (United Kingdom).
cWork: avoiding going to work.
daOR: adjusted odds ratio.
eN/A: not applicable.
fMeasures the difference of the effect being considered due to difference in setting; its value is the ratio of the two setting-specific effects.