Table 3.

Anxiety Measures

Characteristic	Population Value
GAD-7 score (median (interquartile range))a
Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge	1 (1)
Not being able to stop or control worrying	0 (1)
Worrying too much about different things	1 (1)
Trouble relaxing	0 (1)
Being so restless that it is hard to sit still	0 (1)
Becoming easily annoyed or irritable	1 (1)
Feeling afraid as if something terrible might happen	0 (1)
Total GAD-7 Score (median (interquartile range))	4 (6)
How isolated do you feel in general?b (median (interquartile range)	2 (3)
How isolated do you feel in the current situation (during the pandemic)?b (median (interquartile range)	3 (5)
In general, if you needed to borrow $20, or a ride to the doctor’s office, or any other urgent assistance, to how many people could you turn?c (median (interquartile range)	5 (1)
In the current situation, if you needed to borrow $20, or a ride to the doctor’s office, or any other urgent assistance, to how many people could you turn?c (median (interquartile range)	5 (2)

^aThe GAD-7 scale asks the respondent to refers to the 2 weeks prior to the survey. Each item on the scale can receive is scored as follows: 0 (not at all), 1 (several days), 2 (more than half of the days) 3 (nearly every day); thus, the total score can receive a value from 0 to 21, where a higher score indicates greater anxiety

^bThe question about isolation requested the participant to respond on a 10-point Likert scale where 1 = very little and 10-very much

^cThe question requested the participant to respond on a 7 point Likert scale where 0 = no one and 6 = more than 5 people