Table 2.
A statistical summary of the study group’s nosophobia variables: hypochondria, and pandemic anxiety
| Variable under test | Min | Max | M | SD | SKE | K | d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hypochondria symptoms | 3 | 25 | 7.87 | 4.4 | 0.142 | 0.31 | 0.13* |
| Nosophobia symptoms | 6 | 26 | 14.1 | 4.62 | 0.144 | 0.288 | 0.121* |
| Fear of pandemic | |||||||
| Before COVID-19 pandemic | 1 | 6 | 2.02 | 0.64 | 0.64 | − 0.16 | 0.58* |
| During COVID-19 pandemic | 0.81 | 5 | 1.01 | 0.31 | 0.31 | − 0.46 | 0.11* |
According to the table, we can say that the tested variables are consistent with the normal distribution and that the results of hypochondria and nosophobia symptoms are away from the mean, hypochondria symptoms SD = 4.4 and mean value of 7.87 and nosophobia symptoms SD = 4.62 and mean value of 14.1(Table 2).
Analyses were conducted for the number of observations. Max—maximum, Min—minimum, K Kurtosis, M Average, SKE Skewness, SD Standard deviation, d The value of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test
*p < 0.05