TABLE 1.
Demographic characteristics of the participants.
| Sociodemographic variables | Study sample (N = 170) | Population benchmarks |
| Age | 32.21 (9.32) | 35.8 |
| Female | 60.6% | 51.1%a |
| Education (highest achieved) | ||
| Elementary | 0% | 25.6%*a |
| High school | 16% | 44.6%*a |
| Technical degree | 10.7% | |
| Professional (university degree) | 54.4% | 29.8%*a |
| Postgraduate | 18.9% | |
| Work status | ||
| Currently unemployed | 17.8% | 11.2%a |
| Homemaker | 4.1% | |
| Student | 11.2% | |
| Independent worker | 20.1% | 23%b |
| Dependent worker | 45.6% | 47.6%a |
| Retired | 1.2% | |
| Lives with: | ||
| Couple | 17.1% | 12.7%a |
| Couple and children | 29.4% | 28.8%a |
| Parents | 31.2% | |
| Other family members | 27.1% | 19.0%a |
| Alone | 7.7% | 17.8%a |
| Alone with children | 4.1% | 12.7%a |
| Median family income in CLP | 810.000 | 787.000a |
| Clinical variables | ||
| Participants with moderate to severe depression at baseline (>10 in PHQ-9) | 53.4% | 15.8%c |
| Participants with PTSD at baseline (ITQ) | 13% | 11.3%d |
| Average FIVE score (represents percentage from 0 to 100%) | ||
| Fears of getting sick | 34.4% | |
| Fears that others might get sick | 36.4% | |
| Fears of concrete limitations | 31.2% | |
| Fears of not being able to meet the basic needs | 39.1% | |
aApablaza and Vega, 2018. bInstituto Nacional de Estadísticas [INE], 2018. cMargozzini and Passi, 2018. dThese values correspond to the prevalence of PTSD in a sample exposed to a major earthquake in 2010 (Diaz Silva, 2011; Zubizarreta et al., 2013). *Educational level reached at 25 years of age.