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. 5 OLS regression analysis for selected variables

Variables	Estimates (unstandardized)	SE (standard error)	95% CI	P-value
Intercept	0.883	0.288	[0.316; 1.450]	0.002**
Gender (male)	−0.419	0.177	[−0.768; −0.069]	0.019*
Age (under 45)	−0.015	0.230	[−0.468; 0.438]	0.948
Change in residence	0.402	0.254	[−0.100; 0.903]	0.116
Residence type (peri-urban/suburban/rural)	−0.166	0.168	[−0.497; 0.165]	0.324
Increase in time spent outdoors	0.018	0.230	[−0.436; 0.472]	0.938
Decrease in time spent outdoors	0.188	0.187	[−0.181; 0.558]	0.316
Decrease of protective measures for dogs	0.910	0.221	[0.474; 1.347]	^***
Time spent in paved urban areas	−0.043	0.072	[−0.185; 0.098]	0.546
Time spent in urban parks or gardens	−0.011	0.068	[−0.147; 0.124]	0.867
Time spent in nearby forests	0.119	0.064	[−0.007; 0.246]	0.065
Time spent hiking	0.047	0.070	[−0.091; 0.185]	0.503
Time spent in private gardens	0.001	0.055	[−0.108; 0.110]	0.983

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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