Volume 24, Number 2—February 2018
Research
Risk Communication and Ebola-Specific Knowledge and Behavior during 2014–2015 Outbreak, Sierra Leone
Table 2
Association between information exposure and knowledge among respondents to Ebola knowledge, attitude, and practice surveys, Sierra Leone, 2014–2015*
Category | No. (%) respondents | Crude OR (95% CI) | p value† | Adjusted OR‡ (95% CI) | p value† |
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Source of information | |||||
Electronic media | |||||
Yes | 9,894 (94.1) | 1.84 (1.54–2.19) | <0.001 | 1.75 (1.46–2.09) | <0.001 |
No | 615 (5.9) | 1.0 (Reference) | 1.0 (Reference) | ||
Print media | |||||
Yes | 918 (8.7) | 1.96 (1.67–2.31) | <0.001 | 1.47 (1.24–1.75) | <0.001 |
No | 9,591 (91.3) | 1.0 (Reference) | 1.0 (Reference) | ||
New media | |||||
Yes | 1,627 (15.5) | 1.91 (1.68–2.17) | <0.001 | 1.41 (1.23–1.61) | <0.001 |
No | 8,882 (84.5) | 1.0 (Reference) | 1.0 (Reference) | ||
Government | |||||
Yes | 5,011 (47.7) | 1.77 (1.62–1.94) | <0.001 | 1.56 (1.42–1.71) | <0.001 |
No | 5,498 (52.3) | 1.0 (Reference) | 1.0 (Reference) | ||
Community | |||||
Yes | 6,248 (59.5) | 1.63 (1.49–1.78) | <0.001 | 1.44 (1.31–1.59) | <0.001 |
No |
4,261 (40.5) |
1.0 (Reference) |
1.0 (Reference) |
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No. exposures | |||||
0–1 source | 2,878 (27.4) | 1.0 (Reference) | 1.0 (Reference) | ||
2 sources | 3,408 (32.5) | 1.41 (1.26–1.56) | <0.001 | 1.37 (1.23–1.53) | <0.001 |
3 sources | 3,115 (29.6) | 2.18 (1.94–2.45) | <0.001 | 2.09 (1.86–2.35) | <0.001 |
4–5 sources | 1,108 (10.5) | 4.39 (3.65–5.28) | <0.001 | 3.83 (3.17–4.61) | <0.001 |
*OR, odds ratio.
†Wald statistical p value from the multilevel model.
‡Adjusted for region, gender, age, religion, educational level, level of outbreak and all other information exposures.