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. 2020 Nov 25;281:574–580. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.11.113

Table 1.

Characteristics of study participants by anxiety status.

Characteristics Male teachers (n = 17,450) Pvalue Female teachers (n = 49,907) Pvalue
Without anxiety (n = 15,240) With anxiety (n = 2210) Without anxiety (n = 43,018) With anxiety (n = 6889)
Age (years) 41.95 ± 9.37 42.12 ± 9.65 0.4319 35.40 ± 8.32 35.53 ± 8.40 0.2447
Education status (%) <0.0001 <0.0001
 College 3830 (25.13) 629 (28.46) 9382 (21.81) 1638 (23.78)
 Bachelor 10,018 (65.73) 1306 (59.10) 28,539 (66.34) 4225 (61.33)
 Master 843 (5.53) 134 (6.06) 2888 (6.71) 433 (6.29)
 Others 549 (3.60) 141 (6.38) 2209 (5.14) 593 (8.61)
Married (%) 13,621 (89.38) 1973 (89.28) 0.8860 33,809 (78.59) 5567 (80.81) <0.0001
Type of teachers (%) 0.0045 <0.0001
 Primary school teacher 5449 (35.75) 874 (39.55) 26,589 (61.81) 4462 (64.77)
 Junior school teacher 5408 (35.49) 753 (34.07 10,641 (24.74) 1648 (23.92)
 High school teacher 3943 (25.87) 530 (23.98) 5204 (12.10) 679 (9.86)
 University teacher 440 (2.89) 53 (2.40) 584 (1.36) 100 (1.45)
School location (%) 0.1819 <0.0001
 City 5438 (35.68) 822 (37.19) 17,601 (40.92) 2929 (42.52)
 Country-level city 6025 (39.53) 877 (39.68) 13,749 (31.96) 2282 (33.13)
 Rural 3777 (24.78) 511 (23.12) 11,668 (27.12) 1678 (24.36)
Information source (%) <0.0001 <0.0001
 Independent learning 671 (4.43) 144 (6.55) 2692 (6.27) 603 (8.78)
 Structured learning 236 (1.56) 46 (2.09) 428 (1.00) 99 (1.44)
 Mixed learning 14,251 (94.02) 2008 (91.36) 39,797 (92.73) 6163 (89.77)
Type of mask wearing (%) <0.0001 <0.0001
Proper 10,584 (69.45) 1406 (63.62) 33,551 (77.99) 5041 (73.17)
Improper 4656 (30.55) 804 (36.38) 9467 (22.01) 1848 (26.83)
Way of mask wearing (%) 0.0068 <0.0001
 Proper 14,179 (93.04) 2021 (91.45) 41,039 (95.40) 6468 (93.89)
 Improper 1061 (6.96) 189 (8.55) 1979 (4.60) 421 (6.11)
Behavior of mask wearing (%) 0.0001 0.0400
 Proper 14,856 (97.48) 2123 (96.06) 42,350 (98.45) 6759 (98.11)
 Improper 384 (2.52) 87 (3.94) 668 (1.55) 130 (1.89)
Attention level (%) 0.0019 0.5100
 High 15,160 (99.48) 2192 (99.19) 42,798 (99.49) 6860 (99.58)
 Moderate 70 (0.46) 11 (0.50) 185 (0.43) 23 (0.33)
 Low 10 (0.07) 7 (0.32) 35 (0.08) 6 (0.09)
Worried level (%) <0.0001 <0.0001
 High 12,956 (85.01) 2163 (97.87) 39,314 (91.39) 6818 (98.97)
 Moderate 1624 (10.66) 30 (1.36) 2975 (6.92) 56 (0.81)
 Low/none 660 (4.33) 17 (0.77) 729 (1.69) 15 (0.22)
Fear level (%) <0.0001 <0.0001
 High 2141 (14.37) 1190 (54.07) 8263 (19.37) 4310 (62.65)
 Moderate 5862 (39.35) 786 (35.71) 20,652 (48.42) 2235 (32.49)
 Low/none 6894 (46.28) 225 (10.22) 13,734 (32.20) 335 (4.87)

Data are mean (standard deviation) or number (percentage).

P value is from Student's t test or chi-square test for continuous variables and categorical variables.