Table 5.
Percentage of participants who mentioned responses within different categories when describing a typical day of their children since the implementation of social distancing measures, disaggregated by socio-economic status.
| Activity | Percentage of participants (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| All participants (n = 1725) | Low socio-economic status (n = 1142) | Medium socio-economic status (n = 583) | |
| Staying at home | 34 | 34 (+) | 32 (-) |
| Using technology (e.g. computers, tablets, cellphones) | 32 | 28 | 40 |
| Playing | 27 | 25 | 31 |
| Studying | 26 | 22(-) | 34(+) |
| Eating | 17 | 14(-) | 24(+) |
| Being bored/uninterested | 14 | 16(+) | 10(-) |
| Sleeping | 12 | 10 | 16 |
| Spending time together with the rest of the family | 10 | 7 (-) | 15(+) |
| Personal hygiene | 10 | 9 | 11 |
| Playing in the courtyard | 9 | 7 | 13 |
| Reading/writing/drawing | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| Being anxious/restless | 6 | 7(+) | 5(-) |
| Helping with the housework | 6 | 4(-) | 9(+) |
| Asking/wanting to go out | 3 | 4(+) | 2(-) |
| Playing outside | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Practicing physical activity/sports | 3 | 2(-) | 4(+) |
| Using social media | 2 | 1(-) | 4(+) |
| Arguing with siblings | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Note: (+) and (-) indicate that significant differences in the frequency of mention of a category were found between participants from low and medium socio-economic status according to results of the chi-square per cell test (p ≤ 0.05).