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Table 8 Wellbeing compared to before the Ebola outbreak

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 (%)

Compared to your life before the Ebola is your life…

 Much better

10 (4%) ††

14 (5%) ††

24 (4%)

33 (5%) ††

114 (17%)

147 (11%)

2 (5%)

11 (17%)

13 (12%)

 A bit better

102 (38%)

60 (21%)

162 (29%)

300 (45%)**

239 (36%)

539 (40%)

17 (40%)

16 (25%)

33 (31%)

 No change

97 (36%)

194 (67%)

291 (52%)

171 (25%) ††

274 (41%)

445 (33%)

15 (35%)

33 (52%)

48 (45%)

 A bit worse

48 (18%)**

21 (7%)

69 (12%)

101 (15%)**

37 (6%)

138 (10%)

7 (16%)*

2 (3%)

9 (8%)

 Much worse

9 (3%)

2 (1%)

11 (2%)

67 (10%)**

3 (0.5%)

70 (5%)

2 (5%)*

2 (3%)

4 (4%)

 Mean2 (SD)

2.79 (0.90)

2.78 (0.67)

2.79 (0.79)

2.81 (1.08)

2.36 (0.84)

2.58 (0.99)

2.76 (0.95)

2.5 (0.93)

2.61 (0.94)

Compared to your life before the Ebola outbreak do you have…

 Much more money

3 (1%)

2 (1%)

5 (1%)

10 (1%) †

24 (4%)

34 (3%)

0 (0%)

3 (5%)

3 (3%)

 A bit more money

80 (30%)

48 (16%)

128 (23%)

225 (24%)

207 (31%)

432 (32%)

13 (30%)

16 (25%)

29 (27%)

 No change

104 (39%) ††

211 (72%)

315 (56%)

210 (31%) ††

362 (54%)

572 (43%)

19 (44%)

37 (58%)

56 (52%)

 A bit less money

49 (18%)**

22 (8%)

71 (12%)

105 (16%)**

46 (7%)

151 (11%)

7 (16%)

4 (6%)

11 (10%)

 Much less money

29 (11%) ††

10 (3%)

39 (7%)

121 (18%) ††

27 (4%)

148 (11%)

4 (9%)

4 (6%)

8 (7%)

 Mean2 (SD)

3.08 (0.98)

2.97 (0.63)

3.02 (0.82)

3.15 (1.12)

2.77 (0.80)

2.96 (0.99)

3.05 (0.92)

2.84 (0.86)

2.93 (0.89)

Compared to your life before the Ebola outbreak are you…

 Much more happy

16 (6%) ††

45 (15%) †

61 (11%)

98 (15%) ††

285 (43%)

383 (29%)

2 (5%) ††

24 (38%)

26 (25%)

 A bit more happy

106 (40%)

71 (24%) ††

177 (32%)

259 (39%)

296 (45%)

555 (42%)

17 (40%)

24 (38%)

41 (39%)

 No change

95 (36%)**

152 (52%)**

247 (44%)

138 (21%)**

52 (8%)

190 (14%)

16 (37%)**

10 (16%)

26 (25%)

 A bit more unhappy

33 (12%)**

21 (7%)

54 (10%)

85 (13%)**

27 (4%)

112 (8%)

5 (12%)

5 (8%)

10 (9%)

 Much more unhappy

16 (6%)**

3 (1%)

19 (3%)

91 (14%)**

5 (1%)

96 (7%)

3 (7%)*

0 (0%)

3 (3%)

 Mean2 (SD)

2.73 (0.97)

2.54 (0.87)

2.63 (0.92)

2.72 (1.25)

1.75 (0.82)

2.24 (1.16)

2.77 (0.97)

1.94 (0.93)

2.27 (1.03)

  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
  2. 1 Responses chosen by >10% of respondents in at least one sub-population (column) shown only; column percentages
  3. 2 'Much better'=1, 'A bit better'=2, 'No change'=3, 'A bit worse'=4, 'Much worse'=5
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