Changing risk awareness and personal protection measures for low to high pathogenic avian influenza in live-poultry markets in Taiwan, 2007 to 2012

Table 7 Changes in perception among study participants before and after the 2012 chicken HPAI H5N2 outbreaks in Central Taiwan

Perception changes	Live-poultry market workers					Community residents
	Before HPAI		After HPAI		p	Before HPAI		After HPAI		p
	N	%	N	%		N	%	N	%
1. AI epidemics in China will affect Taiwan	104	94.20 %	73	69.9 %	<0.001*	100	94.00 %	150	99.3 %	0.013*
2. People in Taiwan will be infected by AIVs	104	34.60 %	64	65.6 %	<0.001*	100	44.00 %	149	76.5 %	<0.001*
3. Respondents knew government (Ten No’s, Five Needs) policy	104	58.70 %	70	68.60 %	0.186	100	66.00 %	147	68.70 %	0.656
4. Respondents will take self-protection measures against AIVs	104	91.30 %	72	81.90 %	0.064	100	95.00 %	152	96.70 %	0.499
5. Vaccination can prevent human or avian influenza virus infection	104	92.30 %	73	68.5 %	<0.001*	100	95.00 %	152	94.70 %	0.916

This survey was implemented during late June-July 2012, after the outbreak of HPAI H5N2
Data in the two columns of “Before HPAI for live-poultry market workers” (LPMWs) and “Before HPAI for community residents” (CRs) served as two reference groups of LPMWs and CRs, respectively
N Number of participants who answered that specific question
*p-value < 0.05 *, using a two-proportion Z-test

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