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. 2021 Jul 9;12:648569. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.648569

Table 6.

Content analysis of comments of users.

(A) Historic (B) Pandemic
2009 to March 10, 2020 March 11 to August 31, 2020 Statistics
n (E:W:M) (%) n (E:W:M) (%) P
Participants 33 (4:26:3) (100) 57 (0: 44:13) (100)
Grief 13 (0:11:2) (39.4) 5 (0:3:2) (8.8) ***
    Personal loss 8 (0:6.2) (24.2) 1 (0:0:1) (1.8)
    Loss of a friend 2 (0:2:0) (6.0) 1 (0:0:1) (1.8)
    Loss at the school 3 (0:3:0) (9.0) 0
    Societal loss 0 2 (0:2:0) (3.5)
    Disenfranchised grief 0 1 (0:0:1) (1.8)
Expressivity (use of emoji or emoticons)
    In grief 0 0
    Not in grief 0 11 (0:7:4) (21) **
Expressivity (number of words) n, Mean ± SEM n, Mean ± SEM
    In grief 13, 37.5 ± 7.0 5, 17.0 ± 5.44 (*)
    Not in grief 20, 9.8 ± 2.3 GGG 52, 16.1 ± 2.03 (*)

Data for content analysis of comments of users on the viral children's story are expressed as real numbers (n); ratio of E, entities; W, women; M, men; and percentages (%). In bold, the highest percentages are indicated. The symbol “—” is meant for absence or data not reported or quantifiable, according to YouTube analytics. Statistics: Student t test of Fisher exact test; p < 0.001 vs. the comments not referring to grief;

*

p < 0.05, one-tailed;

**

p < 0.01;

***

p < 0.001 vs. the historic.