Table. 2.

Predicting confidence in government and rumor spread among migrant workers during the COVID-19 outbreak.

	Model 1 (Confidence in government)		Model 2 (Rumor exposure)		Model 3 (Rumor belief)		Model 4 (Rumor sharing)
Variable	AOR (95% CI)	p	AOR (95% CI)	p	AOR (95% CI)	p	AOR (95% CI)	p
Age	1.00 (0.96, 1.05)	0.88	1.00 (0.97, 1.02)	0.78	1.05 (1.02, 1.07)	0.001*	1.00 (0.97, 1.04)	0.80
Ethnicity
Bangladesh	0 (ref)		0 (ref)		0 (ref)		0 (ref)
India	1.35 (0.79, 2.33)	0.27	1.50 (1.01, 2.06)	0.01	1.32 (1.00, 1.81)	0.08	1.58 (1.04, 2.41)	0.03
Others	0.77 (0.31, 1.89)	0.57	1.65 (0.89, 3.06)	0.11	0.97 (0.52, 1.79)	0.91	2.62 (1.29, 5.34)	0.008
Marital status
Not Married	0 (ref)		0 (ref)		0 (ref)		0 (ref)
Married	0.96 (0.58, 1.61)	0.89	0.94 (0.69, 1.28)	0.71	0.90 (0.66, 1.22)	0.50	0.81 (0.53, 1.23)	0.32
Education
Primary	0 (ref)		0 (ref)		0 (ref)		0 (ref)
Secondary	2.26 (1.26, 4.04)	0.006*	1.23 (0.80, 1.89)	0.35	0.61 (0.39, 0.94)	0.03	0.57 (0.33, 0.99)	0.04
Tertiary	2.50 (1.33, 4.73)	0.005*	1.14 (0.73, 1.79)	0.57	0.71 (0.45, 1.13)	0.15	0.88 (0.51, 1.52)	0.64
Years in Singapore
≤ 5 years	0 (ref)		0 (ref)		0 (ref)		0 (ref)
> 5 years	1.09 (0.67, 1.78)	0.74	0.74 (0.55, 1.00)	0.05	0.76 (0.57, 1.02)	0.07	0.63 (0.42, 0.93)	0.02
Tested positive for COVID-19
No	0 (ref)		0 (ref)		0 (ref)		0 (ref)
Yes	0.84 (0.53, 1.33)	0.45	1.12 (0.84, 1.49)	0.43	1.00 (0.75, 1.34)	0.98	1.16 (0.78, 1.73)	0.45

Note: AOR=adjusted odds ratio; CI=confidence interval; *indicates significance at p < 0.006 (after Bonferroni correction).