Determinants of COVID-19 Related Perception among University of Gondar Academic Staff, Gondar, Ethiopia, 2021: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Table 3

Standardized regression weights of predictors of COVID-19-related perception among academic staff of the University of Gondar Ethiopia, April 2021 (n = 602).

Variable	Β	95% conf. interval of β		value	Variance explained (%)
		LB	UB
Susceptibility					25
Family size	0.12	0.05	0.18	0.000
Chronic illness	−0.19	−0.26	−0.11	0.000
Knowledge	0.11	0.03	0.18	0.006
Cues to action	0.43	0.35	0.51	0.000
Severity					46
Educational status	−0.11	−0.17	−0.04	0.001
Susceptibility	0.61	0.53	0.69	0.000
Cues to action	0.13	0.04	0.22	0.004
Self-efficacy					40
Knowledge	0.11	0.04	0.18	0.002
Cues to action	0.62	0.56	0.68	0.000
Benefit					40
Knowledge	0.23	0.17	0.29	0.000
Chronic illness	0.09	0.03	0.16	0.005
Profession	−0.09	−0.15	−0.03	0.002
Susceptibility	0.19	0.09	0.30	0.000
Severity	0.23	0.12	0.35	0.000
Self-efficacy	0.29	0.21	0.38	0.000
Barrier					20
Age	−0.18	−0.25	−0.11	0.000
Profession	0.10	0.03	0.17	0.004
Susceptibility	−0.39	−0.46	−0.31	0.000

LB means lower bound; UB means upper bound.