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Table 2 How did Ebola affect you and your community

From: The Ebola crisis and people with disabilities’ access to healthcare and government services in Liberia

 

A few, or many, cases of Ebola (n=560)

No Ebola cases (n=1343)

Don’t know whether there were any

Ebola cases (n=107)

Disabled household n (%)

Non-disabled household n (%)

Total

n (%)

Disabled household

n (%)

Non-disabled household n (% (reference group)

Total n (%)

Disabled household

n (%)

Non-disabled household

n (%)

Total

n (%)

How did Ebola affect you and your community?1

 Decreased social life

211 (80%)**

90 (31%)

301 (54%)

261 (42%)

218 (38%)

479 (40%)

7 (29%)

11 (35%)

18 (32%)

 Stopping welcoming visitors and strangers

19 (7%)

50 (17%)**

69 (12%)

111 (18%)**

53 (9%)

164 (14%)

8 (33%)

2 (6%)

10 (18%)

 Stopping communal eating

24 (9%)

21 (7%)††

45 (8%)

94 (17%)

85 (14%)

179 (15%)

1 (4%)

7 (23%)

8 (15%)

 Restricted movement

4 (2%)†

63 (22%)**

67 (12%)

67 (11%)

80 (14%)

147 (12%)

7 (29%)

1 (3%)

8 (15%)

 Close down of schools

3 (1%)††

25 (9%)††

28 (5%)

34 (5%)††

91 (16%)

125 (10%)

0 (0%)

6 (19%)

6 (11%)

  1. ** p<0.0005 *p<0.005 significant increase in odds †† p<0.0005 †p<0.005 decrease in odds of outcome compared to reference group of Non-disabled households in no Ebola cases area, in multi-level mixed effects logistic regression adjusting for age, sex, education, and wealth quintile and clustering by village