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. 2021 May 14;9(2):1423–1431. doi: 10.1002/nop2.918

TABLE 2.

Depression, anxiety, and stress mean scores and prevalence (N = 1,380)

Scale Mean (SD) Normal (%) Mild (%) Moderate (%) Severe (%) Extremely Severe (%)
Depression 18.72 (9.27) 21.3 21.1 21.2 19.9 16.5
Anxiety 13.11 (7.11) 32.1 24.3 16.8 11.7 15.1
Stress 19.04 (9.16) 41.3 15.5 19.6 13.6 10.0

Scores of Depression, anxiety and stress were from DASS‐21.

Scores for each subscale classified into 5 levels: normal, mild, moderate, severe and extremely Sever. For depression subscale, normal, 0–9; mild, 10–13; moderate, 14–20; severe, 21–27; and extremely sever, 28 and more. For anxiety subscale, normal, 0–7; mild, 8–9; moderate, 10–14; severe, 15–19; and extremely sever, 20 and more. For Stress subscale, normal 0–14; mild, 15–18; moderate, 19–25; severe, 26–33; and extremely sever, 34 and more.