Table 3 Association between willingness to participate in contact tracing and information seeking, trust, and demographic characteristics of survey respondents (n = 1000) (Continuous Variables)
Variable | Median (IQR)a | Spearman correlation with contact tracing | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R | (95%, CI)b | p-value | |||
Dependent variable | Willingness to participate in contact tracing | 4.7 (6.0–3.3) | NA | NA | NA |
Demographics | Age | 51 (64–35) | 0.04 | − 0.018, 0.105 | 0.1669 |
Information seeking | Thinking about some of the ways you get information about the coronavirus outbreak, would you say that you get information from each of the following sources… [Range 1 = Never; 4 = Regularly] (Information seeking) | ||||
Public health institutions | 1.7 (2.3–1.3) | 0.40 | 0.343, 0.447 | <.0001 | |
National left leaning media sources | 1.3 (1.7–1.0) | 0.44 | 0.391, 0.492 | <.0001 | |
National right leaning media sources | 1.0 (1.5–1.0) | −0.27 | −0.330, − 0.216 | <.0001 | |
Local news sources | 1.0 (1.5–1.0) | 0.24 | 0.177, 0.294 | <.0001 | |
Number of information sources | 7.0 (10.0–5.0) | 0.34 | 0.282, 0.392 | <.0001 | |
Regardless of how often you get information from these sources, how much do you trust information provided about the coronavirus outbreak by each of the following? [Range 1 = Not at all, 7 = a great deal] | |||||
Public health institutions | 3.3 (4.0–2.3) | 0.53 | 0.479, 0.569 | <.0001 | |
National left leaning media sources | 2.2 (3.3–1.2) | 0.54 | 0.499, 0.587 | <.0001 | |
National right leaning media sources | 2.0 (3.0–1.0) | −0.32 | −0.317, − 0.259 | <.0001 | |
Local sources | 2.3 (3.0–1.3) | 0.42 | 0.372, 0.474 | <.0001 | |
Trust | General trust in health system | 5.0 (6.0–4.0) | 0.45 | 0.402, 0.500 | <.0001 |