Table 2.

Precautionary activity and impact on quality of life impact amongst those who are worried about catching COVID-19

	Combined effect of worry about COVID-19 and precautions against COVID-19 on quality of life
	None or little effect of both	Some or strong effect of either or both	Total (column %)
Took precautions and felt safer as a result	203a	438b	641 (93%)
Did not take precautions or took precautions and did not feel safer as a result	3b	36b	39 (6%)
Took precautions but did not answer if felt safer	–	10b	10 (1%)
Total (row %)	206 (30%)	484 (70%)	690 (100%)

Source: Unweighted data from wave 2 of the Policing the Pandemic research project

^aThis cell makes up the “functional fear” group

^bThese cells make up the “dysfunctional fear” group