Table 1.
Number of requests for APSs during the years of 2019–2023.
| 2019 n = 246 |
2020 * n = 178 |
2021 ** n = 225 |
2022 n = 199 |
2023 n = 225 |
Pearson-X2 | p-Value | Mantel–Haenszel-X2 | p-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS requests | 125 | 96 | 159 | 148 | 151 | 40.389 | 3.596 × 10−8 | 26.189 | 3.095 × 10−7 |
* Living with COVID-19 (until 7 October 2020), new restrictive measures (8 October–5 November 2020), differentiated containment measures with respect to the levels of contagion in Italian regions (6 November–20 December 2020), measures for the Christmas holidays (from December 2020). ** Easing of containment measures (until 5 August 2021), vaccination green pass (from 6 December 2021).