Factors Affecting Infection Control Behaviors to Prevent COVID-19: An Online Survey of Nursing Students in Anhui, China in March and April 2020

Ting Yuan; Huan Liu; Xiang Dong Li; Hai Rong Liu

doi:10.12659/MSM.925877

11 October 2020: Clinical Research

Factors Affecting Infection Control Behaviors to Prevent COVID-19: An Online Survey of Nursing Students in Anhui, China in March and April 2020

Ting Yuan ^1BCDEFG , Huan Liu ^2ACE* , Xiang Dong Li ^3BCEF , Hai Rong Liu ^4ACDE*

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.925877

Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e925877

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Table 7 Multinomial logistic regression analysis of the factors affecting preventive behavior level toward COVID-19 among the nursing students (N=613).

Variables	N	Preventive behavior level
		Seldom			Sometimes			Often
		OR	95% CI	P	OR	95% CI	P	OR	95% CI	P
Age	613	1.51	1.08, 2.10	0.02^*	1.01	0.93, 1.11	0.78	1.01	1.08, 2.10	0.80
eHEALS	613	0.83	0.78, 0.88	0.00^**	0.89	0.87, 0.91	0.00^**	0.95	0.78, 0.88	0.00^**
Knowledge	613	0.74	0.64, 0.85	0.00^**	0.89	0.84, 0.94	0.00^**	0.92	0.64, 0.85	0.00^**
Attitude	613	0.32	0.13, 0.78	0.01^*	0.24	0.19, 0.32	0.00^**	0.64	0.13, 0.78	0.00^**
Male	706	2.37	0.88, 6.33	0.09	1.44	1.07, 1.95	0.02^*	0.86	0.88, 6.33	0.22
Female	1625	Ref			Ref			Ref
City	868	0.09	0.03, 0.30	0.00^**	0.30	0.23, 0.41	0.00^**	0.41	0.03, 0.30	0.00^**
Countryside	1463	Ref			Ref			Ref
Health status=good	1933	0.21	0.04, 1.17	0.08	0.51	0.18, 1.47	0.21	0.47	0.04, 1.17	0.13
Health status=Neither good nor bad	325	0.59	0.09, 3.97	0.59	0.88	0.29, 2.67	0.83	0.64	0.09, 3.97	0.38
Health status=bad	73	Ref			Ref			Ref
^* ^** Ref – reference level; OR – odds ratio; CI – confidence interval.

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