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Table 3 Attitude and concerns toward COVID-19 among the included participants in the study

From: Comparison of knowledge, attitude, socioeconomic burden, and mental health disorders of COVID-19 pandemic between general population and health care workers in Egypt

Variable

Non-HCWs (n = 402) (n, %)

HCWs (n = 122) (n, %)

P value

How to deal if yourself or a family member is suspected to be infected with COVID-19:

 Home isolation

206 (51.2%)

68 (55.7%)

0.384

 Wait for symptoms to appear

175 (43.5%)

65 (53.3%)

0.058

 Inform health authority

204 (50.7%)

56 (45.9%)

0.349

 Go to hospital immediately

106 (26.4%)

34 (27.9%)

0.743

 Consult friends or social media groups

68 (16.9%)

4 (3.3%)

P < 0.000*

Dealing with suspected infected nearby person:

 Contact with protective measures

195 (48.5%)

71 (58.2%)

0.061

 Give advice to seek a doctor

178 (44.3%)

58 (47.5%)

0.526

 Inform health authority

153(38.1%)

49 (40.2%)

0.676

 Inform the surrounding to him

151 (37.6%)

37 (30.3%)

0.145

 Avoid contact at all

157 (39.1%)

31 (25.4%)

0.006*

Dealing with recovered nearby person:

 Contact with protective measures

288 (71.6%)

82 (67.2%)

0.347

 Contact in a normal way

158 (39.3%)

66 (54.1%)

0.004*

 Inform surrounding to him

48 (11.9%)

8 (6.6%)

0.0.92

 Avoid contact with him

34 (8.5%)

0

0.001

Level of your fear from the infectiona:

 Very afraid

109 (27.1%)

23 (18.9%)

 

 Afraid to moderate degree

154 (38.3%)

54 (44.3%)

0.038*

 Afraid to little degree

94 (23.4%)

38 (31.1%)

 Not afraid

45 (11.2%)

7 (5.7%)

Your expectation toward the epidemica:

 Better outcome

168 (41.8%)

44 (36.1%)

0.2

 I do not know

155 (38.5%)

45 (36.9%)

 Worse outcome

79 (19.7%)

33 (27%)

Accept to volunteer in isolation hospitalsa:

 Yes

141 (35.1%)

43 (35.2%)

0.972

 No

261 (64.9%)

79 (64.8%)

  1. HCWs health care workers
  2. *Significant P value
  3. aQuestion with only one answer