Recreational behaviour, risk perceptions, and protective practices against ticks: a cross-sectional comparative study before and during the lockdown enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania

Table. 3 OLS regression analysis for selected variables

Variables	Estimate (unstandardized)	SE (standard error)	95% CI	P-value
Intercept	0.075	0.095	[−0.113; 0.262]	0.434
Gender (male)	−0.044	0.050	[−0.142; 0.054]	0.380
Age (under 45)	−0.011	0.065	[−0.138; 0.117]	0.870
Change in residence	−0.068	0.079	[−0.223; 0.088]	0.392
Residence type	−0.052	0.049	[−0.149; 0.044]	0.285
Owning a dog	0.076	0.048	[−0.019; 0.171]	0.116
Increase in time spent outside	0.207	0.076	[0.059; 0.356]	0.006**
Decrease in time spent outside	−0.023	0.065	[−0.151; 0.105]	0.728
Time spent in paved urban areas	0.016	0.020	[−0.023; 0.056]	0.418
Time spent in urban parks or gardens	−0.016	0.021	[−0.057; 0.026]	0.462
Time spent in nearby forests	0.016	0.019	[−0.021; 0.054]	0.398
Time spent hiking	0.060	0.020	[0.020; 0.100]	0.004**
Time spent in private/common gardens of the dwelling	−0.010	0.016	[−0.043; 0.022]	0.533
Time spent in agricultural areas	0.044	0.019	[0.006; 0.081]	0.022*

Baseline values are reported inside brackets. Asterisks indicate significant differences between values *P ≤ 0.05, **P ≤ 0.01, ***P ≤ 0.001

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