Table 3.

Determinants of Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) among study participants

Demographic	Type	PSS-10 score (mean ± SD)	p value*
Age (year)		r = 0.325#	0.005*
Gender	Male	15.97 ± 6.61	0.035*
	Female	19.03 ± 5.39
Residence	Independent house	16.58 ± 6.08	0.097
	Apartment	20.29 ± 6.18
	Hostel	18 ± 2.82
Education	Less than high school	13 ± 6.52	0.003*
	High school	17.8 ± 7.79
	Intermediate	16.5 ± 6.11
	Graduate	18.52 ± 5.14
	Post-graduate	22.62 ± 3.96
Occupation	Student	16.32 ± 6.19	0.006*
	Employed	22.3 ± 3.36
	Business	23.25 ± 5.56
	Unemployed	15.83 ± 4.79
Presence of any symptom over last 14 days	Yes	19.11 ± 5.11	0.4
	No	17.26 ± 6.33
Satisfaction with available information	Yes	16.59 ± 6.33	0.038*
	No	22.67 ± 5.08
	Do not know	19.5 ± 3.89
Frequency of accessing information	Never	23 ± 4.24	0.074
	Occasionally	21 ± 3.69
	Daily	16 ± 6.24
	Multiple times a day	18.56 ± 6.16
Knowledge of COVID-19 infection	Transmission score	r = − 0.149#	0.194
	Prevention Score	r = − 0.089#	0.438
	Symptom Score	r = − 0.085#	0.462
Duration of type 1 diabetes (year)		r = − 0.042#	0.717
Insulin regimen	Split mix regimen	19.70 ± 5.47	0.435
	Basal bolus	17.04 ± 6.13
	Continuous infusion	18.40 ± 8.29

^*p value < 0.05 is considered significant

^#Spearman correlation