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Table 6 Information sources and community’s need for additional information on COVID-19

From: An analysis of COVID-19 information sources

Information sources

Information need

COR

P-value

AOR

95% CI

P-value

Yes

No

Radio

       

 Yes

318

166

1.82

0.002

1.28

0.85, 1.93

0.239

 No

77

73

1

 

1

  

Relatives

       

 Yes

98

45

1.42

0.082

1.14

0.73, 1.77

0.577

 No

297

194

1

 

1

  

Church

       

 Yes

131

28

3.74

 < 0.001

3.24

2.03, 5.19

 < 0.001*

 No

264

211

1

 

1

  

Television

       

 Yes

197

169

1

 

1

  

 No

198

70

2.43

 < 0.001

2.39

1.63, 3.49

 < 0.001*

Health professionals

       

 Yes

9

1

5.55

0.105

3.13

0.34, 29.17

0.316

 No

386

238

1

 

1

  

Social media

       

 Yes

58

11

3.57

 < 0.001

4.52

2.26, 9.04

 < 0.001*

 No

337

228

1

 

1

  

Mobile texting

       

 Yes

84

60

1

0.264

   

 No

311

179

1.24

    

Megaphone

       

 Yes

94

49

1.21

0.336

   

 No

301

190

1

    

Newspaper

       

 Yes

16

4

2.48

0.108

2.09

0.62, 7.04

0.233

 No

379

235

1

 

1

  
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