Application of the protection motivation theory to understand determinants of compliance with the measure of banning gathering size >4 in all public areas for controlling COVID-19 in a Hong Kong Chinese adult general population.

PLoS One · 2022 · PMC9089903 · PMID 35536833

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of marginal significancep <0.10so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Adjusted for the background factors, multiple linear regression analysis found that perceived response efficacy and perceived self-efficacy were significantly and positively associated with compliance with BG4PA ( p <0.05), while the associations between perceived severity/perceived susceptibility and compliance were of marginal significance (0.05< p <0.10).

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marginally significantno p-value reported

p <0.05 and 0.05< p <0.10 were defined as statistically significant and marginally significant, respectively (two-tailed).

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