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

Table 9 Willingness to take preventive measures for the selected infectious diseases (Stage II Survey)

Infectious diseases^a	Two study populations		p-value
Infectious diseases^a	Live-poultry market workers (N = 73)	Community residents (N = 152)	p-value
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)	60 (82.2 %)	112 (73.7 %)	0.159
HPAI H5N2	47 (64.4 %)	83 (54.6 %)	0.164
2009 Pandemic H1N1	46 (63.0 %)	101 (66.4 %)	0.612
Enterovirus	24 (32.9 %)	86 (56.6 %)	0.001*
LPAI H5N2	23 (31.5 %)	51 (33.6 %)	0.760
Tuberculosis	21 (28.8 %)	76 (50 %)	0.003*

The data within the percentages of community residents related to the willingness to take preventive measures for the selected infectious diseases served as the reference group in this Table 9
HPAI Highly pathogenic avian influenza
LPAI Lowly pathogenic avian influenza
*p-value <0.05 by chi-square test
^aNumbers in this table indicate how many respondents indicated they were willing to take preventive measures against each disease listed. Respondents were given a list and were free to select any or all of the infectious diseases (that they would protect themselves from)

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