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. 2021 Aug 19;3:100051. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2021.100051

Table 4.

Factors associated with getting tested for COVID-19 and sharing names of contacts

Willingness to be tested(a)
Willingness to share names of contacts(b)
Predictors Odds Ratio(95% CI) P value Odds Ratio(95% CI) P value
Age 0.98 (0.96, 1.00) 0.024 1.03 (0.99, 1.08) 0.130
Having a chronic illness
 Yes 2.92 (1.26, 8.00) 0.021
 No Reference
Trust in medical sectors to manage COVID-19 1.39 (1.19, 1.62) <0.001 1.95 (1.54, 2.52) <0.001
Being a health professional
 Yes Reference
 No 1.66 (1.05, 2.63) 0.030
Being infected with COVID-19
 Yes Reference Reference
 No 2.60 (0.90, 7.00) 0.063 11.37 (3.48, 34.69) <0.001
Knowing someone in your immediate social network who has or had COVID-19
 Yes Reference
 No 2.01 (1.28, 3.16) 0.002
Tjur R2 0.10 0.10
Pearson chi-square test 0.24 0.22
Deviance chi-square test 0.95 0.98

Note: Binomial logistic regression was performed for both models using the backward elimination approach based on the Akaike Information Criterion for model selection. The full model for both models were adjusted for age (continuous), gender, education level, chronic disease, health literacy (continuous), trust in non-medical institutions (continuous), trust in the medical sector (continuous), trust in media sources (continuous), being a health professional, being infected with COVID-19, knowing someone who was infected with COVID-19 and frequency of media consumption.

(a)

Willingness to be tested: If you have been in contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19 and have no symptoms yourself – would you get tested if you had the opportunity?

(b)

Willingness to share names of contacts: If you test positive for COVID-19 and are asked to share with health authorities the names of people you had been in contact with – would you share all names?