Volume 11, Number 5—May 2005
Research
Avian Influenza Risk Perception, Hong Kong
Richard Fielding*
, Wendy W.T. Lam*, Ella Y.Y. Ho*, Tai Hing Lam*, Anthony J. Hedley*, and Gabriel M. Leung*
, Wendy W.T. Lam*, Ella Y.Y. Ho*, Tai Hing Lam*, Anthony J. Hedley*, and Gabriel M. Leung*
Table A1
Factor structure of attitude and knowledge items*
| Variable | Factor structure† |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factor 1: animal husbandry risk | Factor 2: traditional market practices | Factor 3: risk taking | Factor 4: AI anxieties | Factor 5: feel protected | |
| SARS due to market hygiene | 0.693 | ||||
| AI due to market hygiene | 0.722 | ||||
| SARS and AI due to unsustainable animal husbandry practices | 0.626 | ||||
| Live animal sales important disease risk | 0.533 | ||||
| SARS and AI due to market demand for live animals | 0.621 | ||||
| SARS and AI due to poor personal hygiene | 0.468 | ||||
| Raising and selling live chickens should be prohibited | –0.561 | ||||
| Buying live chickens risky to health | –0.446 | ||||
| Do not buy live chickens, despite what others do | –0.429 | ||||
| Defend the right to trade live animals, even at risks to community's health | 0.580 | ||||
| Occasional health scares should not stop tradition of buying live chicken | 0.629 | ||||
| Stopping live poultry sales makes people lose livelihood | 0.640 | ||||
| Risk health for taste of live chicken | –0.527 | ||||
| Need more info on AI | 0.501 | ||||
| Risk health for benefit of buying live chickens | –0.615 | ||||
| I'm responsible for protecting myself from AI | 0.513 | ||||
| Believe people who say animal diseases nothing to worry about | –0551 | ||||
| Friends worry about AI | 0.564 | ||||
| AI news in papers scares me | 0.646 | ||||
| Feel vulnerable to AI | 0.554 | ||||
| Scared of catching AI | 0.505 | ||||
| TV/radio AI news reassuring | 0.418 | ||||
| Trust government to protect health | 0.679 | ||||
| Actions implemented to control AI are inadequate | 0.705 | ||||
*SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome; AI, avian influenza.
†Varimax rotation, all factor loadings <0.4 suppressed.
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