Influence of mental health on information seeking, risk perception and mask wearing self-efficacy during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal panel study across 6 U.S. States

Table 2 Demographic associations with information seeking at baseline

Demographic Variables (REF = reference group)	Info-seeking B (CI), p value	Risk Perception B (CI), p value	Risk Mitigation B (CI), p value
Gender (Female)	-0.14 (-0.23, -0.05), 0.003	2.83 (0.88, 4.79), 0.004	-0.04 (-0.13, 0.06), 0.427
Age	0.01 (0.01, 0.02), < 0.001	-0.14 (-0.20, -0.07), < 0.001	0.00 (-0.00, 0.01), 0.132
Hispanic/Latinx (REF: White)	-0.09 (-0.24, 0.07), 0.276	1.78 (-1.49, 5.04), 0.286	-0.02 (-0.18, 0.13), 0.789
Asian (REF: White)	-0.02 (-0.23, 0.203), 0.896	0.99 (-3.60, 5.58), 0.673	0.29 (0.07, 0.51), 0.009
Black American (REF: White)	0.17 (0.01, 0.32), 0.035	-3.71 (-6.94, -0.47), 0.025	-0.06 (-0.21, 0.09), 0.452
Multi-racial (REF: White)	-0.03 (-0.27, 0.21), 0.811	-1.52 (-6.62, 3.59), 0.560	-0.04 (-0.29, 0.20), 0.719
Education (< HS vs. Graduate Degree)	-0.69 (-1.00, -0.38)), < 0.001	-3.86 (-10.44, 2.72), 0.250	-0.64 (-0.95, -0.34), < 0.001
Work Status (Unemployed, not looking vs. retired)	-0.65 (-0.88, -0.43), < 0.001	4.23 (-0.54, 9.00), 0.082	-0.52 (-0.74, -0.29), < 0.001
Political Party (Republican vs. Democrat)	-0.24 (-0.36, -0.13), < 0.001	-7.18 (-9.63, -4.72), < 0.001	-0.35 (-0.47, -0.24), < 0.001
#Known who have died of COVID-19	0.26 (0.14,, 0.38), < 0.001	3.91 (1.39, 6.43), 0.002	0.19 (0.08, 0.31), 0.001

Statistical significance set at 0.001. Demographic models were run for each outcome with similar results. Consequently, the same demographics variables were used for adjustment across the three outcomes models, with ethnicity and race adjusted for in each model on theoretical grounds

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