Knowledge, socio-cognitive perceptions and the practice of hand hygiene and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study of UK university students

Table 4 Correlation between perception of probability, susceptibility and severity of infection and protective behaviours

Factor	N	Mean (SD)	Median (IQR) ^a	Spearman’s correlation r_s (2-tailed) [95% BCa CI] ^b	p
Hand hygiene behaviour
Probability	293	4.41 (1.96)	4.0 (3.0)	0.13 (0.02, 0,23]	0.031
Susceptibility	293	4.41 (1.97)	4.0 (3.0)	0.17 [0.06, 0.26]	0.005
Severity	293	4.13 (2.12)	4.0 (4.0)	0.18 [0.07,0.28]	0.002
Social distancing behaviour
Probability	281	4.44 (1.97)	4.0 (3.0)	0.006 [−0.10, 0.11]	0.916
Susceptibility	281	4.41 (1.97)	4.0 (3.0)	0.03 [−0.08, 0.15]	0.613
Severity	281	4.07 (2.09)	4.0 (4.0)	0.107 [−0.01, 0.22]	0.074

Abbreviations: BCa CI, Bias corrected accelerated confidence intervals, SD standard deviation, IQR interquartile range. Bold: significance p < 0.05
^a Median (IQR) reported as based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for normality, variables were not normally distributed
^b 95% BCa CI from 1000 bootstrap samples

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