Table 4

Factors determining the proportion of people who think that they "received reasonable information about the fox tapeworm" in Czech Republic, France, Germany and Switzerland.

Variable*

OR

95% CI

COUNTRY (log likelihood test statistic 64.0, df 3, p < 0.001)

France vs. Germany

0.11

0.06, 0.20

Switzerland vs. Germany

0.73

0.52, 1.01

Czech Republic vs. Germany

0.74

0.42, 1.27

AGE (log likelihood test statistic 7.0, df 2, p < 0.05)

< 25 vs. >= 45 years

0.58

0.35, 0.92

25–44 vs. >= 45 years

0.74

0.53, 1.01

COMMUNITY (log likelihood test statistic 7.7, df 2, p < 0.05)

<= 5000 vs. > 50/90'000* inhabitants

1.75

1.17, 2.61

5'000 – 50/90'000 vs. > 50/90'000* inhabitants

1.41

0.97, 2.04

Effect size is expressed by the odds ratios (OR) of the significant factors in the final model of the stepwise backward logistic regression. In the analyses only interviewees are included that have heard about the fox tapeworm (CZ: N = 68, FR: N = 88, DE: N = 343, CH: N = 309).

* Variables who did not enter the final model: Sex, Household, State EM, Attitude, Country × Age, Country × Sex, Country × Household, Country × State EM, Country × Community, Country × Attitude.

Hegglin et al. BMC Public Health 2008 8:247   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-247