Table 2 Knowledge of the epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 of 9845 participants
From: A snapshot of public knowledge of novel coronavirus disease 2019: a web-based national survey
Items | Answers | Total | Hubei | Other regions | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pathogens | 0.546 | ||||
Virus | √ | 8505 (86.4%) | 1042 (87.1%) | 7463 (86.3%) | |
Bacteria | × | 143 (1.5%) | 12 (1.0%) | 131 (1.5%) | |
Both virus and bacteria | × | 876 (8.9%) | 103 (8.6%) | 773 (8.9%) | |
No idea | × | 321 (3.3%) | 40 (3.3%) | 281 (3.2%) | |
Transmission | |||||
Droplet transmission | √ | 9647 (98.0%) | 1176 (98.2%) | 8471 (98.0%) | 0.583 |
Aerosol transmission | √ | 7389 (75.1%) | 907 (75.8%) | 6482 (75.0%) | 0.539 |
Fecal-oral transmission | ○ | 6771 (68.8%) | 856 (71.5%) | 5915 (68.4%) | 0.029 |
Contact transmission | √ | 9251 (94.0%) | 1143 (95.5%) | 8108 (93.8%) | 0.018 |
Person-to-person transmission | √ | 9046 (91.9%) | 1106 (92.4%) | 7940 (91.8%) | 0.488 |
Animal-to-person transmission | ○ | 3845 (39.1%) | 430 (35.9%) | 3415 (39.5%) | 0.018 |
Transmitted through talking with others | △ | 5727 (58.2%) | 723 (60.4%) | 5004 (57.9%) | 0.095 |
Transmitted through shaking hands with others | △ | 4950 (50.3%) | 625 (52.2%) | 4325 (50.0%) | 0.153 |
Susceptible population | |||||
Children | √ | 6465 (65.7%) | 693 (57.9%) | 5772 (66.7%) | < 0.001 |
Young adults | √ | 4567 (46.4%) | 532 (44.4%) | 4035 (46.7%) | 0.150 |
Seniors | √ | 9729 (98.8%) | 1192 (99.6%) | 8537 (98.7%) | 0.006 |
Others viewpoints | |||||
It’s a noncommunicable disease | × | 4 (0.0%) | 1 (0.1%) | 3 (0.0%) | 0.405 |
Infected persons could be asymptomatic | √ | 7879 (80.0%) | 989 (82.6%) | 6890 (79.7%) | 0.017 |