Table 4.
Severity categories of distress and anxiety measurements in total cohort and subgroups
| Variable | SRQ‐20, distress symptoms | SAS, anxiety symptoms | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. (%) | Z/χ2 | P value | No. (%) | Z/χ2 | P value | ||||||
| Normal cases | Mental disorder cases | Normal cases | Total anxiety cases | Mild anxiety cases | Moderate anxiety cases | Severe anxiety cases | |||||
| Gender | |||||||||||
| Female | 322 (79.7) | 82 (20.3) | −1.399 | 0.162 | 219 (54.2) | 185 (45.8) | 131 (32.4) | 30 (7.4) | 24 (5.9) | −0.223 | 0.824 |
| Male | 100 (85.5) | 17 (14.5) | 66 (56.4) | 51 (43.6) | 33 (28.2) | 12 (10.3) | 6 (5.1) | ||||
| Age, year | |||||||||||
| ≤22 | 248 (77.5) | 72 (22.5) | −2.566 | 0.010* | 174 (54.4) | 146 (45.6) | 105 (32.8) | 25 (7.8) | 16 (5.0) | −0.123 | 0.902 |
| >22 | 174 (86.6) | 27 (13.4) | 111 (55.2) | 90 (44.8) | 59 (29.4) | 17 (8.5) | 14 (7.0) | ||||
| Nationality | |||||||||||
| Han | 409 (81.0) | 96 (19.0) | −0.026 | 0.979 | 275 (54.5) | 230 (45.5) | 158 (31.3) | 42 (8.3) | 30 (5.9) | −1.017 | 0.309 |
| Others | 13 (81.2) | 3 (18.8) | 10 (62.5) | 6 (37.5) | 6 (37.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | ||||
| Education level | |||||||||||
| Junior college student | 36 (66.7) | 18 (33.3) | 8.690 | 0.013* | 26 (48.1) | 28 (51.9) | 14 (25.9) | 9 (16.7) | 5 (9.3) | 3.476 | 0.176 |
| Undergraduate | 351 (82.2) | 76 (17.8) | 241 (56.4) | 186 (43.6) | 131 (30.7) | 32 (7.5) | 23 (5.4) | ||||
| Postgraduate | 35 (87.5) | 5 (12.5) | 18 (45.0) | 22 (55.0) | 19 (47.5) | 1 (2.5) | 2 (5.0) | ||||
| Major | |||||||||||
| Non‐medical | 259 (83.8) | 50 (16.2) | −1.979 | 0.048* | 186 (60.2) | 123 (39.8) | 77 (24.9) | 25 (8.1) | 21 (6.8) | −2.216 | 0.027* |
| Medical | 163 (76.9) | 49 (23.1) | 99 (46.7) | 113 (53.3) | 87 (41.0) | 17 (8.0) | 9 (4.2) | ||||
| Place of residence | |||||||||||
| Urban | 217 (81.3) | 50 (18.7) | −0.164 | 0.870 | 136 (50.9) | 131 (49.1) | 98 (36.7) | 15 (5.6) | 18 (6.7) | −1.266 | 0.205 |
| Rural | 205 (80.7) | 49 (19.3) | 146 (58.7) | 108 (41.3) | 66 (26.0) | 27 (10.6) | 12 (4.7) | ||||
| Medical condition of the place of residence | |||||||||||
| Good | 129 (89.6) | 15 (10.4) | 9.538 | 0.023* | 73 (50.7) | 71 (49.3) | 47 (32.6) | 16 (11.1) | 8 (5.6) | 2.572 | 0.462 |
| Average | 211 (77.6) | 61 (22.4) | 153 (56.3) | 119 (43.7) | 77 (28.3) | 24 (8.8) | 18 (6.6) | ||||
| Fair | 72 (78.3) | 20 (21.7) | 50 (54.3) | 42 (45.7) | 37 (40.2) | 2 (2.2) | 3 (3.3) | ||||
| Poor | 10 (76.9) | 3 (23.1) | 9 (69.2) | 4 (30.8) | 3 (23.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (7.7) | ||||
| Current health status | |||||||||||
| Good | 322 (85.6) | 54 (14.4) | −4.343 | 0.000*** | 201 (53.5) | 175 (46.5) | 120 (31.9) | 30 (8.0) | 25 (6.6) | −1.075 | 0.282 |
| General/fair | 100 (69.0) | 45 (31.0) | 84 (57.9) | 61 (42.1) | 44 (30.3) | 12 (8.3) | 5 (3.4) | ||||
| Frequency of paying attention to pandemic information | |||||||||||
| >10 times a day | 74 (85.1) | 13 (14.9) | 2.443 | 0.486 | 38 (43.7) | 49 (56.3) | 29 (33.3) | 11 (12.6) | 9 (10.3) | 7.987 | 0.046* |
| 6–10 times a day | 53 (76.8) | 16 (23.2) | 42 (60.9) | 27 (39.1) | 23 (33.3) | 2 (2.9) | 2 (2.9) | ||||
| 1–5 times a day | 292 (80.7) | 70 (19.3) | 202 (55.8) | 160 (44.2) | 112 (30.9) | 29 (8.0) | 19 (5.2) | ||||
| Never | 3 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (100.0) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | ||||
| Total | 422 (81.0) | 99 (19.0) | 285 (54.7) | 236 (45.3) | 164 (31.5) | 42 (8.1) | 30 (5.8) | ||||
*
P value < 0.05, *** P value < 0.001. SAS, Self‐Rating Anxiety Scale; SRQ‐20, 20‐item Self Reporting Questionnaire.