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. 2020 Sep 30;22(9):e21915. doi: 10.2196/21915

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics and questionnaire score.

Characteristic Survey 1 Survey 2 Survey 3 F or χ2 P value
Age (year), mean (SD) 21.3 (2.5) 21.2 (2.3) 20.9 (2.0) F=85.6 <.001
Intensity of fear, mean (SD) 7.8 (2.0) 6.7 (2.2) 6.5 (2.2) F=1147.9 <.001
Y-BOCSa score, mean (SD) 7.9 (5.7) 4.8 (5.1) 4.5 (5.1) F=1366.6 <.001
SASb standard score, mean (SD) 36.9 (7.9) 36.1 (8.2) 36.2 (8.1) F=34.2 <.001
Quarantine level, mean (SD) 2.44 (0.7) 1.26 (0.5) 1.00 (0.0) F=27,129.4 <.001
Age (years), n (%)


χ2=113.6 <.001

<26 12,814 (95.1) 8193 (96.7) 8617 (97.4)


≥26 664 (4.9) 274 (3.3) 199 (2.6)

Gender, n (%)


χ2=1.8 .41

Male 4662 (34.6)

2991 (35.3)

3113 (35.3)




Female 8816 (65.4) 5476 (64.7) 5703 (54.7)

Major, n (%)


χ2=227.3 <.001

Clinical 8549 (63.4)

4576 (54.0)

5259 (59.7)




Basic medical 3428 (26.4)

2902 (34.3)

2467 (28.0)




Nonmedical 1501 (11.1) 989 (11.7) 1090 (12.3)

Sibling(s), n (%)


χ2=1.5 .48

No 2452 (18.2) 1495 (17.7) 1557 (17.7)


Yes 11,026 (81.8) 6972 (82.3) 7259 (82.3)

Year of enrollment, n (%)

χ2=360.9 <.001

2015 1319 (10.0) 941 (11.1) 665 (7.5)


2016 2343 (17.7) 1863 (22.0) 1403 (15.9)


2017 2997 (22.6) 1511 (17.8) 2013 (22.8)


2018 3274 (24.7) 2169 (25.6) 2474 (28.1)


2019 3017 (22.8) 1883 (22.2) 2206 (25.0)


Other 291 (2.2) 92 (1.3) 55 (0.6)

Y-BOCS scorec, n (%)


χ2=704.5 <.001

≥16 1519 (11.3) 305 (3.6) 305 (3.5)


<16 11,959 (88.7) 8162 (96.4) 8511 (96.5)

aY-BOCS: Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale.

bSAS: Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale.

cThe odds ratio for the Y-BOCS was 2.4 (95% CI 2.2-2.7).