Table 2.
Perceived risk of COVID-19 (n = 550).
| Item | Frequency | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| What is your gut feeling about how likely you are to get infected with COVID-19? | Very/Extremely Unlikely | Somewhat Likely | Very/Extremely Likely | |||
| 96 | 17.5 | 180 | 32.7 | 274 | 49.8 | |
| Picturing myself getting COVID-19 is something I find | Hard/very hard to do | Easy to do | Extremely/very easy to do | |||
| 62 | 11.3 | 141 | 25.6 | 347 | 63.1 | |
| I am sure I will NOT get infected with COVID-19 | Agree/strongly agree | Somewhat agree | Disagree/strongly disagree | |||
| 98 | 17.8 | 78 | 14.2 | 374 | 68.0 | |
| I feel I am unlikely to get infected with COVID-19 | Agree/strongly agree | Somewhat agree | Disagree/strongly disagree | |||
| 143 | 26.0 | 108 | 19.6 | 299 | 54.4 | |
| I feel vulnerable to COVID-19 infection | Strongly disagree/disagree | Somewhat agree | Agree/strongly agree | |||
| 191 | 34.7 | 155 | 28.2 | 204 | 37.1 | |
| I think my chances of getting infected with COVID-19 are | Zero/small | Moderate | Large/very large | |||
| 78 | 14.2 | 157 | 28.5 | 315 | 57.3 | |
| Comparison of COVID-19 perceived risk across significant demographic variables (n = 550) | ||||||
| COVID-19 Perceived Risk | Mean Difference | ±SD | 95% Confidence Interval of the Difference | |||
| Primary school versus no education | 3.5 | ±0.9 *** | 5.6–1.6 | |||
| Secondary school versus no education | 4.1 | ±0.8 *** | 5.3–1.6 | |||
| University/college versus no education | 4.8 | ±0.7 *** | 5.4–2.1 | |||
| ANOVA, f = 9.1 ***, df = 3 | ||||||
| Middle income versus low income | 1.1 | ±0.5 * | 2.2–0.9 | |||
| High income versus low income | 1.2 | ±0.6 * | 2.1–0.3 | |||
| ANOVA, f = 2.8 *, df = 2 | ||||||
M = 21.5 (±SD = 3.6), minimum = 8, maximum = 30, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, and *** p < 0.001.