Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of the sample, in regard to knowledge about COVID-19.

Questions	Options	Psychiatric Patients N (%)	Healthy Controls N (%)
Information about COVID-19 retrieved from	Media	60	82
	Social networks	13	37
	Family	9	18
	Community operators *	37	-
	Community hosts *	7	-
	Organized communication from community staff *	25	-
	Other	4	2
What is COVID-19	Seasonal flu	2	5
	Respiratory syndrome	39	42
	Respiratory insufficiency	35	38
	High temperature	18	15
	Fake news	0	2
	Terrorist attack	2	0
	Other	9	3
Participation in formative meetings about COVID-19 *	Yes	72 (93.5%)	-
	No	5 (6.5%)	-

Note. * indicates responses/questions administered only to the psychiatric patients.