Table 2.
Anxiety symptom severity in university students by demographic characteristics
| No anxiety symptoms (GAD-7 score < 5) | Mild anxiety symptoms (GAD-7 score 5–9) | Moderate anxiety symptoms (GAD-7 score 10–14) | Severe anxiety symptoms (GAD-7 score > 15) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | pa | |
| Age (years) | < 0.01 | ||||||||
| 18–20 | 52 | 14.7 | 82 | 23.2 | 119 | 33.7 | 100 | 28.3 | |
| 21–24 | 50 | 15.3 | 102 | 31.3 | 91 | 27.9 | 83 | 25.5 | |
| 25–30 | 38 | 18.5 | 62 | 30.2 | 56 | 27.3 | 49 | 23.9 | |
| > 30 | 88 | 28.0 | 101 | 32.2 | 64 | 20.4 | 61 | 19.4 | |
| Gender | < 0.01 | ||||||||
| Female | 145 | 16.0 | 269 | 29.6 | 260 | 28.6 | 235 | 25.9 | |
| Male | 90 | 32.0 | 80 | 28.5 | 61 | 21.7 | 50 | 17.8 | |
| Transgender, gender fluid, other | 3 | 5.7 | 11 | 20.8 | 18 | 34.0 | 21 | 39.6 | |
| Race/Ethnicity | 0.13 | ||||||||
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 8 | 13.3 | 19 | 31.7 | 17 | 28.3 | 16 | 26.7 | |
| Asian | 30 | 30.3 | 32 | 32.3 | 20 | 20.2 | 17 | 17.2 | |
| Black or African American | 6 | 22.2 | 6 | 22.2 | 7 | 25.9 | 8 | 29.6 | |
| Hispanic/Latinx | 31 | 13.0 | 70 | 29.3 | 69 | 28.9 | 69 | 28.9 | |
| White | 149 | 20.4 | 207 | 28.3 | 202 | 27.6 | 174 | 23.8 | |
| > 1 Race/Other | 13 | 16.5 | 22 | 27.9 | 24 | 30.4 | 20 | 25.3 | |
| Student Status | < 0.01 | ||||||||
| Undergraduate | 98 | 14.0 | 178 | 25.4 | 223 | 31.8 | 203 | 28.9 | |
| Graduate/ Professional | 140 | 26.4 | 178 | 33.6 | 112 | 21.1 | 100 | 18.9 | |
aChi-square test for difference in anxiety symptom severity (no anxiety, mild anxiety, moderate anxiety, severe anxiety) within demographic groups