TABLE 6.
The relationship between the data on areas of concern and psychological response levels
| Areas of concern | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Reference category | n (%) | Other category(ies) | n (%) | DASS‐21 | IES‐R Total | ||||||||||
| Anxiety | Depression | Stress | ||||||||||||||
| P | OR | 95% CI | P | OR | 95% CI | P | OR | 95% CI | P | OR | 95% CI | |||||
| I am worried about my own health | No | 2105 (59.31) | Yes | 1444 (40.69) | <.001 | 1.565 | 1.22‐2.008 | NS | .283 | 1.154 | 0.888‐1.501 | <.001 | 1.49 | 1.201‐1.848 | ||
| I am worried about the health of my family and relatives | No | 623 (17.55) | Yes | 2926 (82.45) | NS | .545 | 1.103 | 0.807‐1.523 | .01 | 1.992 | 1.207‐3.461 | .421 | 1.157 | 0.817‐1.662 | ||
| I am worried about economic status | No | 2378 (67.00) | Yes | 1171 (33.00) | .055 | 1.284 | 0.994‐1.657 | .068 | 1.235 | 0.984‐1.547 | .057 | 1.306 | 0.991‐1.719 | .042 | 1.254 | 1.007‐1.559 |
| I am worried about academic status | No | 2676 (75.40) | Yes | 873 (24.60) | .451 | 1.11 | 0.845‐1.456 | .028 | 1.305 | 1.029‐1.653 | .191 | 1.203 | 0.911‐1.586 | .259 | 1.145 | 0.904‐1.446 |
| I am worried about infecting others | No | 1885 (53.11) | Yes | 1664 (46.89) | .274 | 1.147 | 0.897‐1.466 | .544 | 1.067 | 0.866‐1.314 | .725 | 1.048 | 0.808‐1.361 | .004 | 1.356 | 1.1‐1.674 |
| I am worried about not getting adequate treatment when necessary | No | 2388 (67.29) | Yes | 1161 (32.71) | .09 | 1.251 | 0.965‐1.619 | .57 | 1.069 | 0.849‐1.343 | .481 | 1.105 | 0.837‐1.457 | .623 | 1.059 | 0.843‐1.328 |
| I am worried about lack of access to enough food | No | 3151 (88.79) | Yes | 398 (11.21) | NS | .896 | 1.02 | 0.759‐1.367 | NS | NS | ||||||
| I am worried about that the treatment of the disease cannot be found and/or the outbreak will not end | No | 2632 (74.16) | Yes | 917 (25.84) | <.001 | 1.775 | 1.357‐2.32 | <.001 | 2.05 | 1.625‐2.585 | <.001 | 1.862 | 1.413‐2.452 | <.001 | 1.609 | 1.274‐2.028 |
| I am worried about safety | No | 2878 (81.09) | Yes | 671 (18.91) | <.001 | 1.794 | 1.354‐2.375 | <.001 | 1.928 | 1.495‐2.486 | <.001 | 1.939 | 1.455‐2.583 | <.001 | 2.074 | 1.621‐2.652 |
| I am worried while getting the medicines I should use regularly | No | 3306 (93.15) | Yes | 243 (6.85) | .002 | 1.755 | 1.237‐2.485 | .414 | 1.151 | 0.82‐1.612 | .096 | 1.365 | 0.943‐1.964 | .249 | 1.211 | 0.873‐1.676 |
| I am afraid to go to health checks | No | 1920 (54.10) | Yes | 1629 (45.90) | NS | NS | NS | .003 | 1.39 | 1.122‐1.723 | .025 | 1.363 | 1.04‐1.791 | .031 | 1.269 | 1.021‐1.576 |
Abbreviations: CI, Confidence interval; NS, Not selected (by feature selection algorithm); OR, Odds ratio.
Bold font indicates statistical significance: P < .05.