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Table 5 Factors associated with the COVID-19 knowledge, attitude, and practice scores of university students

From: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of university students regarding COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in Vietnam

No

Variables

Knowledge

Attitude

Practice

Univariate

Multivariate

Univariate

Multivariate

Univariate

Multivariate

Coef

Adj. Coef

Coef

Adj. Coef

Coef

Adj. Coef

1

Age (continuous variable)

0.338***

0.204***

0.146***

 

0.110***

0.066***

2

Sex (ref.: Female)

      

Male

-1.658***

 

-2.003***

-1.515***

-0.595***

 

3

Year of study (ref.: Fifth)

      

First

-3.415***

 

-1.034

 

-1.042***

 

Second

-2.338***

 

-0.894

 

-0.641*

 

Third

-0.109

 

0.601

 

0.268

0.583**

Fourth

-0.064

 

0.541

 

0.403

 

4

Major (Ref: Medical)

      

Non-medical

-3.495***

-2.808***

-1.775***

-1.337***

-1.045***

-0.766***

5

Place of residence (Ref: Rural)

      

Urban

0.971***

 

0.305

 

0.290*

 

6

Province (Ref: Bacgiang)

      

Bacninh

-0.676

 

-0.531

 

-0.619

 

Haiduong

0.661

 

0.529

 

-0.605

 

Haiphong

-0.100

 

-0.122

 

-0.398

 

Hanoi

-0.035

 

0.005

 

-0.306

 

Hungyen

0.477

 

-0.156

 

-0.276

 

Namdinh

0.557

 

0.565

 

0.136

 

Thaibinh

0.135

 

1.000

 

-0.305

 

Thanhhoa

-0.126

 

-0.454

 

-0.517

 

Others

0.862

 

0.590

 

-0.300

 

7

The people living with the student (Ref: Alone)

      

Family

1.312*

 

0.872

 

0.537*

 

Friends

-0.124

 

0.184

 

-0.044

 

8

Number of doses of COVID-19 vaccines given (Ref: > 3)

      

No/one

-1.671

 

1.959

 

0.347

 

Two

-0.447

 

0.283

 

0.684

 

Three

-0.259

 

0.212

 

0.895

 

9

Infected with COVID-19 (Ref: No/Don’t know)

      

Yes

-0.018

 

-0.064

 

-0.167

 

10

Participated in COVID-19 volunteer activities in health facilities (Ref: Already)

      

Never

-0.235

 

0.191

 

-0.191

 

11

Resources for seeking COVID-19 information

      

Social network/online newspapers (Ref: No)

      

Yes

0.357

 

0.072

 

-0.267

 

Family members/friends (Ref: No)

      

Yes

0.680*

 

0.640*

 

0.088

 

Mass media (Ref: No)

      

Yes

1.128***

 

1.156***

 

0.140

 

Websites of the World Health Organization, the Ministry of Health/scientific articles (Ref: No)

      

Yes

1.349***

0.995***

1.393***

1.095***

0.485***

0.364**

  1. Variables of the multivariate linear regression models were chosen by using the Bayesian Model Averaging method
  2. Adjusted R-squared for the multivariate linear regression models: 0.1864 (Knowledge), 0.0938 (Attitude), and 0.109 (Practice)
  3. coef. Coefficient, adj. coef. Adjusted coefficient, ref. Reference
  4. *** p-value < 0.001
  5. ** p-value < 0.01
  6. * p-value < 0.05