Public conformism with health regulation is crumbling as COVID-19 becomes a chronic threat: Repeated Cross-sectional Studies

Table 3 Adjusted and unadjusted odds-ratio of intent to comply with self-isolation without compensation for lost wages according to correlated threat perception and socio-demographic variables (N = 2095)

Variable^a	Unadjusted		Adjusted
Variable^a	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Round (Ref: Jan. 22)
Round 1 (Mar. 2020)	8.136	5.385, 12.294***	3.654	1.856, 7.193***
Round 2 (Aug. 2020)	4.335	3.039, 6.182***	2.729	1.619, 4.600***
Round 3 (Jan. 2021)	3.106	2.216, 4.355***	2.223	1.331, 3.711***
Age (cont.)	1.027	1.019, 1.036***	1.022	1.008, 1.037*
Gender (Ref: Female)
Male	0.522	0.413, 0.660***	0.559	0.376, 0.831**
Income (Ref: Lower than Avg.)
Average	0.645	0.456, 0.912*	0.594	0.345, 1.026
Higher than average	0.760	0.564, 1.026	0.845	0.524, 1.363
Education (Ref: academics)
Non-academics	0.666	0.522, 0.848***	0.922	0.612, 1.389
Been in self-quarantine (Ref: No)
Yes	0.452	0.350, 0.584***	0.888	0.584, 1.352
News consumption	1.491	1.340, 1.660***	1.119	0.911, 1.347
Worry over COVID-19	1.762	1.578, 1.967***	1.088	0.876, 1.352
Trust in MOH	2.012	1.805, 2.242***	1.326	1.089, 1.613**
Punishment efficacy	1.723	1.555, 1.910***	1.058	0.875, 1.278

Ref reference category, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, MOH Ministry of Health
^aOnly variables found to correlate with the dependent variable are shown. The categorization of the independent variables are as follows: Round (4 categories); Age (cont.); Gender (2 categories); Income (3 categories); Education (2 categories); Been in self-quarantine (2 categories); News consumption, Worry over COVID-19, Trust in MOH, and perception of efficacy of punishment of self-quarantine violations—ordinal from 1 (“not at all”) to 5 (“very much”)
*p value < 0.05 (two tailed), **p value < 0.01 (two tailed), ***p value < 0.001 (two tailed)

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