Table 4 Awareness scores of 9845 participants

Gender

< 0.001

 Male

4540

17.620 ± 2.691

 Female

5305

17.980 ± 2.632

Age

< 0.001

 18–44

7616

17.892 ± 2.628

Ref.

 45–59

1923

17.630 ± 2.752

< 0.001

 60–74

306

17.026 ± 2.846

< 0.001

Marital status

< 0.001

 Married

7135

17.883 ± 2.637

 Unmarried

2710

17.634 ± 2.730

Occupation

< 0.001

 Healthcare workers

2512

18.463 ± 2.467

 Others

7333

17.592 ± 2.694

Education level

< 0.001

 Tertiary

8089

18.049 ± 2.538

 Others

1756

16.731 ± 2.954

Region

0.019

 Hubei

1197

17.645 ± 2.602

 Others

8648

17.837 ± 2.673

Source of first information

< 0.001

 Internet

8112

17.867 ± 2.639

Ref.

 Television

778

17.195 ± 2.757

< 0.001

 Word of mouth^a

723

17.736 ± 2.666

0.205

 Others

232

18.297 ± 2.950

0.015

Concern much about the pandemic

< 0.001

 Yes

8034

17.918 ± 2.618

 No

1811

17.353 ± 2.822

Extremely anxious about the pandemic

0.341

 Yes

1949

17.761 ± 2.776

 No

7896

17.827 ± 2.637

Highly agreement with the effectiveness of control measures

0.735

 Yes

7295

17.809 ± 2.657

 No

2550

17.829 ± 2.690