Knowledge about pandemic influenza and compliance with containment measures among Australians
Keith Eastwood, David Durrheim, J Lynn Francis, Edouard Tursan d’Espaignet, Sarah Duncan, Fakhrul Islam & Rick Speare
Volume 87, Number 8, August 2009, 588-594
Table 1. Stated intention to comply with control measures before and after briefly describing pandemic influenza to a sample of Australian adults surveyed by telephone, 2007
| Question | Before |
After |
Percentage point change (95% CI) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Yes | No | |||
| % | % | % | % | |||
| 1. If told you might have had contact with pandemic influenza, would you stay home 7–10 days to avoid exposing others? | 94.1 | 5.9 | 97.5 | 2.5 | 3.4 (2.2–4.6) | |
| 2. If told you needed to avoid public events, would you? | 94.2 | 5.8 | 98.3 | 1.7 | 4.1 (2.9–5.4) | |
| 3. If told you needed to postpone social gatherings, would you? | 90.7 | 9.3 | 97.2 | 2.8 | 6.5 (4.9–8.0) | |
CI, confidence interval.