Table 5.
Summary of the impact of panic resulting from social media about COVID-19 between female vs. males and age groups.
| Variables | Total (n = 942) n(%) | Gender |
P value1 | Age group (years) |
P value1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female (n = 640) n(%) | Male (n = 322) n(%) | 6-9 (n = 205) n(%) | 10-14 (n = 556) n(%) | 15-18 (n = 181) n(%) | ||||
| Psychological | 736 (78.1) | 539 (84.2) | 197 (61.2) | <0.001 | 141 (68.9) | 432 (77.6) | 163 (90.1) | <0.001 |
| Physical | 12 (1.3) | 11 (1.7) | 1 (0.3) | 4 (2.0) | 7 (1.3) | 1 (0.6) | ||
| Psychological and physical | 50 (5.3) | 37 (5.8) | 13 (4.0) | 21 (10.2) | 29 (5.2) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| All of them | 34 (3.6) | 27 (4.2) | 7 (2.2) | 2 (0.9) | 32 (5.8) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| I was not afraid | 110 (11.7) | 26 (4.1) | 104 (32.3) | 37 (18.0) | 56 (10.1) | 17 (9.4) | ||
1
Calculated by Chi-squared (χ2) test, P-value significant at ≤ 0.05.