Table 2 Weighted awareness of R U OK?Day and participation in R U OK?Day by sex, age and geographical location in 2017 compared to 2014
From: Australian R U OK?Day campaign: improving helping beliefs, intentions and behaviours
Awareness | Participation | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Participants in 2014a (N = 2000) | Participants in 2017 (N = 2013) | Percent difference [95% CI] | p value | Participants in 2014a (N = 2000) | Participants in 2017 (N = 2013) | Percent difference [95% CI] | p-value | |||||
n | % | n | % | % | n | % | n | % | % | |||
Gender | ||||||||||||
Female | 731 | 72.2 | 847 | 82.9 | 10.7 [7.1–14.3] | < .001 | 144 | 19.7 | 268 | 31.6 | 11.9 [8.1–15.6] | < .001 |
Male | 582 | 59.0 | 715 | 72.1 | 13.1 [8.9–17.2] | < .001 | 106 | 18.2 | 226 | 31.6 | 13.4 [9.6–17.1] | < .001 |
Age group | ||||||||||||
16–24 | 255 | 77.3 | 250 | 83.2 | 5.9 [–.04–12.0] | .028 | 67 | 26.3 | 93 | 37.3 | 11.0 [3.7–18.2] | .001 |
25–34 | 232 | 67.8 | 282 | 75.9 | 12.8 [6.1–19.4] | .009 | 67 | 28.9 | 117 | 41.3 | 12.4 [5.4–19.2] | < .001 |
35–44 | 225 | 63.7 | 258 | 76.5 | 12.8 [6.0–19.5] | < .001 | 33 | 14.7 | 78 | 30.4 | 15.7 [9.5–21.8] | < .001 |
45–54 | 222 | 65.3 | 267 | 81.1 | 15.8 [9.2–22.3] | < .001 | 35 | 15.8 | 75 | 28.2 | 12.4 [6.1–18.6] | < .001 |
55–64 | 196 | 68.1 | 220 | 75.5 | 7.4 [0.1–14.6] | .022 | 34 | 17.3 | 61 | 27.7 | 10.4 [3.6–17.1] | .002 |
65+ | 183 | 52.7 | 286 | 74.5 | 21.8 [14.9–28.5] | < .001 | 14 | 7.7 | 70 | 24.5 | 16.8 [11.6–21.9] | < .001 |
Geographical location | ||||||||||||
Metropolitan | 830 | 64.8 | 1179 | 76.4 | 11.6 [8.2–15.0] | < .001 | 167 | 20.1 | 385 | 32.7 | 12.6 [9.4–15.8] | < .001 |
Non-metropolitan | 483 | 67.1 | 383 | 81.4 | 14.3 [9.3–19.1] | < .001 | 83 | 17.2 | 110 | 28.6 | 11.4 [6.5–16.4] | < .001 |
Total | 1313 | 65.7 | 1562 | 77.6 | 11.9 [9.1–14.7] | < .001 | 250 | 19.0 | 494 | 31.6 | 12.6 [9.93–15.25] | < .001 |