Volume 24, Number 2—February 2018
Research
Risk Communication and Ebola-Specific Knowledge and Behavior during 2014–2015 Outbreak, Sierra Leone
Table 4
Association between information exposure and misconceptions 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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Type of information | |||||
Electronic media | |||||
Yes | 9,894 (94.1) | 1.29 (1.08–1.54) | 0.005 | 1.42 (1.18–1.70) | <0.001 |
No | 615 (5.9) | 1.0 (Reference) | 1.0 (Reference) | ||
Print media | |||||
Yes | 918 (8.7) | 1.03 (0.88–1.21) | 0.734 | 0.98 (0.83–1.15) | 0.729 |
No | 9,591 (91.3) | 1.0 (Reference) | 1.0 (Reference) | ||
New media | |||||
Yes | 1,627 (15.5) | 1.22 (1.07–1.38) | 0.002 | 1.17 (1.03–1.34) | 0.020 |
No | 8,882 (84.5) | 1.0 (Reference) | 1.0 (Reference) | ||
Government | |||||
Yes | 5,011 (47.7) | 1.35 (1.24–1.48) | <0.001 | 1.26 (1.14–1.38) | <0.001 |
No | 5,498 (52.3) | 1.0 (Reference) | 1.0 (Reference) | ||
Community | |||||
Yes | 6,248 (59.5) | 1.46 (1.33–1.60) | <0.001 | 1.39 (1.26–1.53) | <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) | 1.04 (0.94–1.17) | 0.400 | 1.07 (0.95–1.19) | 0.262 |
3 sources | 3,115 (29.6) | 1.62 (1.44–1.83) | <0.001 | 1.67 (1.47–1.88) | <0.001 |
4–5 sources | 1,108 (10.5) | 1.73 (1.45–2.05) | <0.001 | 1.86 (1.56–2.22) | <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.