Table 1.
Socio-demographic and clinical variablesa
Variable | Before COVID-19 pandemic (N = 1010) |
During COVID-19 pandemic (N = 504) |
Statistics | p-value | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age | Mean ± SD | 47.10 ± 15.50 | 47.06 ± 15.46 | Z = 0.004 | 0.997 |
Sex | Female | 510 (50.5%) | 256 (50.8%) | χ2 = 0.012 | 0.913 |
Male | 500 (49.5%) | 248 (49.2%) | |||
Education | No A-levels | 230 (22.8%) | 123 (24.4%) | χ2 = 0.501 | 0.497 |
A-levels or higher | 780 (77.2%) | 381 (75.6%) | |||
Marital status | Single | 282 (27.9%) | 133 (26.4%) | χ2 = 2.194 | 0.533 |
Married/partnership | 608 (60.2%) | 316 (62.7%) | |||
Divorced/separated | 79 (7.8%) | 41 (8.1%) | |||
Widowed | 41 (4.1%) | 14 (2.8%) | |||
Any chronic diseases | 347 (34.4%) | 167 (33.1%) | χ2 = 0.224 | 0.636 | |
Work statusb | Normal work | 251 (49.8%) | |||
Working remotely | 55 (10.9%) | ||||
Unemployed | 57 (11.3%) | ||||
Lost work due to COVID-19 | 19 (3.8%) | ||||
Houseworker | 19 (3.8%) | ||||
Retired | 77 (15.3%) | ||||
In training or student | 15 (3.0%) | ||||
Other | 11 (12.2%) | ||||
Living space (in m2)b | Mean ± SD | 111.7 ± 15.46 | |||
No. of people living in householdb | Mean ± SD | 2.98 ± 1.24 | |||
Outside living space availableb | 398 (79.0%) | ||||
Social distancingb | Not at all | 70 (13.9%) | |||
Moderate | 60 (11.9%) | ||||
Strong | 217 (43.1%) | ||||
Quarantined | 157 (31.2%) | ||||
Tested for SARS-CoV-2b | Not tested | 483 (95.8%) | |||
Negative result | 14 (2.8%) | ||||
Positive result | 5 (1.0%) | ||||
Results pending | 2 (0.4%) |
a Table entries are n (%), if not denoted otherwise; b variable assessed only in the assessment during COVID-19; SD standard deviation