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Volume 24, Number 2—February 2018
Research

Risk Communication and Ebola-Specific Knowledge and Behavior during 2014–2015 Outbreak, Sierra Leone

Maike WintersComments to Author , Mohamed F. Jalloh, Paul Sengeh, Mohammad B. Jalloh, Lansana Conteh, Rebecca Bunnell, Wenshu Li, Zangin Zeebari, and Helena Nordenstedt
Author affiliations: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (M. Winters, M.F. Jalloh, Z. Zeebari, H. Nordenstedt); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (M.F. Jalloh, R. Bunnell, W. Li); FOCUS1000, Freetown, Sierra Leone (P. Sengeh, M.B. Jalloh); Ministry of Health and Sanitation Sierra Leone, Freetown (L. Conteh)

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Table 6

Mediation analyses for knowledge, misconceptions, protective behavior, and risk behavior among respondents to Ebola knowledge, attitude, and practice surveys, Sierra Leone, 2014–2015*

Category
 Beta A (SE)
 Beta B (SE)
 Beta AB (SE)
 p value† AB
Mediation analyses for knowledge and protective behavior
Type of information
Electronic media 0.558 (0.091) 0.662 (0.047) 0.369 (0.066) <0.001
Print media 0.387 (0.088) 0.662 (0.047) 0.256 (0.061) <0.001
New media 0.342 (0.069) 0.662 (0.047) 0.226 (0.048) <0.001
Government 0.444 (0.048) 0.662 (0.047) 0.294 (0.038) <0.001
Community 0.365 (0.049) 0.662 (0.047) 0.242 (0.037) <0.001
No. sources
0–1 source
2 sources 0.317 (0.055) 0.664 (0.047) 0.210 (0.039) <0.001
3 sources 0.737 (0.060) 0.664 (0.047) 0.489 (0.052) <0.001
4–5 sources
 1.341 (0.096)
 0.664 (0.047)
 0.890 (0.090)
 <0.001
Mediation analyses for misconceptions and risk behavior
Type of information
Electronic media 0.350 (0.092) 0.400 (0.047) 0.140 (0.040) <0.001
Print media −0.022 (0.084) 0.400 (0.047) −0.009 (0.034) 0.791
New media 0.157 (0.068) 0.400 (0.047) 0.063 (0.028) 0.024
Government 0.227 (0.049) 0.400 (0.047) 0.091 (0.022) <0.001
Community 0.329 (0.050) 0.400 (0.047) 0.132 (0.025) <0.001
No. sources
0–1 source
2 sources 0.063 (0.056) 0.400 (0.047) 0.025 (0.023) 0.277
3 sources 0.510 (0.062) 0.400 (0.047) 0.204 (0.034) <0.001
4–5 sources 0.622 (0.089) 0.400 (0.047) 0.249 (0.046) <0.001

*Beta coefficients of the adjusted ORs (adjusted for region, gender, age, religion, educational level, level of outbreak and all other information sources): A, B refer to the paths in Technical Appendix Figure 2 (https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/EID/article/24/2/17-1028-Techapp1.pdf); AB is the multiplication of A and B. OR, odds ratio.
†χ2 test with 1 df.

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