Table 3.
Survey Response Data by Participant Group
| Participant Group |
P |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survey question | Control | Vision Impaired | Hearing Impaired | |
| General health before pandemic | <.001 | |||
| Excellent | 17 (11%) | 9 (8%) | 25 (23%) | |
| Very good | 71 (46%) | 30 (27%) | 53 (49%) | |
| Good | 53 (34%) | 44 (39%) | 24 (22%) | |
| Fair | 11 (7%) | 24 (21%) | 6 (6%) | |
| Poor | 3 (2%) | 5 (4%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Health change | .28 | |||
| Much better now | 1 (1%) | 2 (2%) | 3 (3%) | |
| Somewhat better now | 13 (8%) | 4 (4%) | 7 (7%) | |
| Same | 116 (75%) | 95 (85%) | 89 (83%) | |
| Somewhat worse now | 23 (15%) | 10 (9%) | 8 (7%) | |
| Much worse now | 1 (1%) | 1 (1%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Help with activities before pandemic | <.001 | |||
| No help needed | 121 (78%) | 26 (23%) | 90 (83%) | |
| Some help needed | 27 (17%) | 63 (56%) | 15 (14%) | |
| Someone else completes tasks | 7 (6%) | 23 (21%) | 3 (3%) | |
| Disruption of daily life because of COVID-19 | .33 | |||
| A lot | 48 (31%) | 31 (28%) | 36 (33%) | |
| A fair amount | 79 (51%) | 54 (48%) | 51 (50%) | |
| Just a little | 25 (16%) | 21 (19%) | 20 (19%) | |
| Not at all | 2 (1%) | 6 (5%) | 1 (1%) | |
| COVID-19 infection | .41 | |||
| Yes | 7 (5%) | 6 (5%) | 11 (10%) | |
| No | 125 (81%) | 91 (82%) | 82 (76%) | |
| COVID-19 exposure (of those not infected) | .21 | |||
| Yes | 15 (10%) | 6 (6%) | 11 (11%) | |
| No | 74 (50%) | 68 (64%) | 51 (53%) | |
| Isolation change | .02 | |||
| Much less now | 0 (0%) | 3 (3%) | 2 (2%) | |
| Less now | 12 (8%) | 3 (3%) | 7 (7%) | |
| Same | 24 (16%) | 31 (28%) | 14 (13%) | |
| More now | 66 (43%) | 39 (35%) | 54 (51%) | |
| Much more now | 51 (33%) | 36 (32%) | 28 (27%) | |
| Difficulty obtaining food | .30 | |||
| No or some difficulty | 152 (99%) | 105 (94%) | 105 (97%) | |
| A lot of difficulty or unable | 2 (1%) | 7 (6%) | 3 (3%) | |
| Difficulty obtaining medicine | .51 | |||
| No or some difficulty | 154 (99%) | 99 (88%) | 93 (86%) | |
| A lot of difficulty or unable | 1 (1%) | 13 (12%) | 15 (14%) | |
| Difficulty obtaining medical care | .052 | |||
| No or some difficulty | 139 (90%) | 91 (81%) | 94 (89%) | |
| A lot of difficulty or unable | 16 (10%) | 21 (19%) | 13 (11%) | |
| Job loss | .15 | |||
| Yes | 5 (3%) | 9 (9%) | 5 (5%) | |
| No | 140 (97%) | 89 (91%) | 97 (95%) | |
| Pay cut (of employed) | .049 | |||
| Yes | 13 (10%) | 6 (8%) | 21 (21%) | |
| No | 122 (90%) | 68 (92%) | 78 (78%) | |
| General transportation | <.001 | |||
| Drove themselves | 138 (89%) | 23 (21%) | 104 (96%) | |
| Driven by family/friends | 22 (14%) | 81 (72%) | 5 (5%) | |
| Public transportation | 7 (5%) | 16 (14%) | 5 (5%) | |
| Chance of running out of money | 8.9% | 7.06% | 4.26% | .60 |
| PHQ-2 score, mean (SD) | 1.63 (1.79) | 1.55 (1.76) | 1.40 (1.66) | .28 |
| Leaving home less often | 134 (87%) | 95 (85%) | 99 (92%) | .24 |
| Not interacting with friends as often | 126 (81%) | 86 (77%) | 96 (89%) | .07 |
| Connecting more via phone, tablet, computer | 97 (63%) | 76 (63%) | 78 (72%) | .23 |
PHQ = Patient Health Questionnaire (higher scores correlate with depression).