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Note For a) OR > 1 indicates more likely to report 2+ recommended behaviours; for b) OR > 1 indicates more likely to report 2+ non-recommended behaviours.
Older patients reported significant higher adherence to recommended behaviours, except for BMI where older patients had lower adherence.
Knowledge of recommended behaviours was not associated with any of the socio-demographic factors, area of residence, or any other independent variables listed above.
As can be seen, participants carrying out two or more recommended behaviours were significantly higher on anxiety, perceived probability of personal infection and mortality awareness.
Findings from this study show that during a crisis communicating to the public in a timely manner affects compliance with recommended behaviours, and that risk-perceptions are associated with compliance.
In this study we limited our observation of "trust" to generic questions on "trust in government" which resulted not to be associated with compliance with recommended behaviours or opinions on the role of government in regulating the environment.
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Based on these responses we created a count variable ranging from 0 (did not follow any recommended behaviour, followed a non- recommended behaviour or followed a combination of recommended and not recommended behaviours) to 1 7 (maximum number of recommended behaviours).
The percentage of respondents who did not know about any recommended behaviour was low among residents of the nine affected counties; 89 % of them were able to report at least one recommended behaviour.
People living in an affected county were 5.7 times more likely to follow a recommended behaviour than those living outside this area [95%% C.I. 3.8 8.6].
Residents who received information the same day the emergency occurred were 2.3 times more likely to follow a recommended behaviour [OR = 2.3 95%% C.I. 1.2 4.5].
This study is the first to test whether the gap between actual and recommended behaviour moderates the effects of self-affirmation.
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