Table 2.
Kader knowledge, attitude and practices regarding COVID-19, by urban/rural status.
| Outcome | Total* N = 478 |
Rural* n = 382 | Urban* n = 75 | p-value** | Missing values*** |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High self-reported COVID knowledge | 394 (93.1) | 320 (86.4) | 64 (85.3) | 0.080 | 8.2 |
| Confident answering COVID questions | 391 (91.8) | 327 (85.6) | 64 (85.3) | 0.021 | 7.5 |
| Need COVID training | 418 (98.1) | 352 (92.2) | 66 (88.0) | 0.041 | 7.5 |
| Confident in safety from COVID | 431 (94.5) | 367 (96.1) | 64 (85.3) | 0.005 | 0.2 |
| Agree ‘the community listens to and trusts me’ | 365 (92.4) | 310 (81.2) | 55 (73.3) | 0.003 | 14.6 |
| Agree ‘it is difficult to know which information to trust’ | 289 (73.7) | 245 (64.1) | 44 (58.7) | 0.007 | 15.3 |
| Assigned COVID-related tasks | 389 (85.3) | 331 (86.7) | 8 (77.3) | 0.198 | 0.2 |
| No COVID-related tasks conducted | 77 (15.5) | 53 (13.9) | 18 (24.0) | 0.001 | 4.4 |
| Four protective measures taken | 231 (50.6) | 204 (53.4) | 27 (36.0) | 0.102 | 4.4 |
Notes: * Presented are frequency (%); ** Bivariate analyses were performed using Pearson's chi-squared tests; *** Presented are %.