Development and validation of a multi-lingual online questionnaire for surveying the COVID-19 prevention and control measures used in global workplaces

Table 1 Participant characteristics and logistic regression results for feeling protected from COVID-19 at work vs. feeling unprotected or unsure (N = 627)

		N	%	Do you feel protected from COVID-19 at work? Yes vs. No or unsure
		N	%	Crude OR (95% CI)	Adjusted OR (95% CI)^c
Gender	Female^a	436	71
	Male	181	29	1.99 (1.35,2.94)***	1.88 (1.18,2.99)**
	Total	617	100
Age	18 to 34^a	151	24
	35 to 44	165	26	1.05 (0.66,1.67)	1.29 (0.76,2.21)
	45 to 54	177	28	1.5 (0.94,2.40)	1.64 (0.98,2.77)
	55 and over	134	21	1.84 (1.10,3.05)*	2.17 (1.25,3.77)**
	Total	627	100
Country of Residence^b	Ireland ^a	210	36
	Argentina	24	4	2.02 (0.71,5.76)
	Canada	243	42	0.80 (0.54,1.18)
	China	26	4	2.15 (0.76,6.07)
	Nigeria	18	3	1.16 (0.41,3.27)
	Poland	16	3	1.05 (0.37,3.02)
	UK	49	8	0.40 (0.20,0.78)**
	Total	586	100
Education Level	No Higher/Third Level Education ^a	146	23
	Higher/Third Level Education and up	481	77	0.71 (0.47,1.06)
	Total	627	100
Occupational Sector	Healthcare or social assistance^a	255	50
	Construction	15	3	1.18 (0.39,3.55)	0.98 (0.23,4.23)
	Educational services	106	21	0.48 (0.30,0.79)**	0.74 (0.26,2.13)
	Administration	19	4	0.65 (0.26,1.67)	2.03 (0.75,5.53)
	Manufacturing and food processing	15	3	7.64 (0.98,59.43)	6.58 (0.67,64.61)
	Professional, scientific, or technical services	31	6	1.85 (0.76,4.50)	2 (0.55,7.25)
	Public administration and defence	25	5	0.82 (0.35,1.93)	1.37 (0.37,5.04)
	Transportation or warehousing	17	3	0.46 (0.16,1.27)	0.44 (0.09,2.1)
	Retail trade	27	5	0.23 (0.09,0.57)**	0.38 (0.1,1.46)
	Total	509	100
Role	Employee^a	432	69
	Management	195	31	2.99 (2.01,4.43)***	3.1 (1.99,4.83)***
	Total	627	100
Vaccination Status	Vaccinated (Fully or Partially) ^a	460	73
	Unwilling to be vaccinated	62	10	0.82 (0.48,1.43)
	No access to COVID vaccine	105	17	0.57 (0.34,0.95)*
	Total	627	100

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
^a Reference category
^b Because this study aimed to determine the survey’s ability to capture country-level differences in response, we chose not to combine groups despite low percentages of responses from some countries (~ 3%)
^c Stepwise descending variable selection using AIC

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