Table 2.

Anxiety and depression, and the psychological impact of COVID-19 in study participants.

	Baseline	Follow-up	Δ*	t	P value	d
HADS
Anxiety (range 0–21)	7.1 ± 3.7	4.6 ± 3.7	2.5 ± 3.9	6.369	< 0.001	0.62
Depression (range 0–21)	4.3 ± 3.0	3.1 ± 3.4	1.2 ± 3.1	3.786	< 0.001	0.37
IES-R (range 0–88)		18.1 ± 12.8

Data are mean ± standard deviation.

*Delta was calculated from the difference between the baseline and follow-up mean scores of anxiety and depression.

α ≤ 0.05 indicates significant difference. Cohen’s d was reported as indicator of effect size from the paired samples t-test.