Table 4.
Characteristics of social isolation and the acquisition of information about COVID19 in relation to the presence of suicidal ideation (PSI) based on question 10 of the EPDS.
| Variables | Categories | N | Presence of Suicidal Ideation (n=182) |
p | OR (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No (n=156) | Yes (n=26) | |||||
| N (%), Median (range) | N (%), Median (range) | |||||
| Lockdown interview | No | 150 | 126 (85.1) | 22 (14.9) | .846 | 0.8 (0.2-2.4) |
| Yes | 34 | 30 (88.2) | 4 (11.8) | |||
| Isolation at some point in time | No | 17 | 13 (76.5) | 4 (23.5) | .394 | 0.5 (0.1-1.6) |
| Yes | 144 | 124 (87.3) | 18 (12.7) | |||
| Total isolation until the interview | No | 131 | 111 (85.4) | 19 (14.6) | .896 | 0.8 (0.3-2.3) |
| Yes | 42 | 36 (87.8) | 5 (12.2) | |||
| Days after lockdown | 184 | 211 (183-240) | 204 (183-212) | .358# | - | |
| Isolation days | 161 | 30 (14-120) | 30 (15-120) | .806# | - | |
| Number of external activities | 184 | 4 (3-5) | 4 (3-5) | .856# | - | |
| Went out of the home for appropriate reasons | No | 6 | 3 (50) | 3 (50) | .039 * | 0.2 (0.03-0.8) |
| Yes | 178 | 153 (86.9) | 23 (13.1) | |||
| Went out of the home for inappropriate reasons | No | 68 | 55 (82.1) | 12 (17.9) | .397 | 0.6 (0.3-1.5) |
| Yes | 116 | 101 (87.8) | 14 (12.2) | |||
| Information through TV | No | 36 | 31 (86.1) | 5 (13.9) | 1.000 | 1.0 (0.4-3.0) |
| Yes | 148 | 125 (85.6) | 21 (14.4) | |||
| Information through the Internet | No | 74 | 64 (88.9) | 8 (11.1) | .439 | 1.6 (0.6-3.8) |
| Yes | 110 | 92 (83.6) | 18 (16.4) | |||
| Information through news sites | No | 132 | 115 (88.5) | 15 (11.5) | .150 | 2.1 (0.9-4.8) |
| Yes | 52 | 41 (78.8) | 11 (21.2) | |||
| Information through YouTube | No | 170 | 145 (86.3) | 23 (13.7) | .427 | 1.7 (0.4-6.6) |
| Yes | 14 | 11 (78.6) | 3 (21.4) | |||
| Information through WhatsApp | No | 158 | 136 (87.2) | 20 (12.8) | .221 | 2.0 (0.7-5.7) |
| Yes | 26 | 20 (76.9) | 6 (23.1) | |||
| Information through newspapers | No | 123 | 107 (7) | 16 (13.0) | .628 | 1.4 (0.6-3.2) |
| Yes | 61 | 49 (83.1) | 10 (16.9) | |||
| Information through friends | No | 156 | 136 (88.3) | 18 (11.7) | .035 * | 3.0 (1.2-7.9) |
| Yes | 28 | 20 (71.4) | 8 (28.6) | |||
| Information through family members | No | 150 | 128 (86.5) | 20 (13.5) | .587 | 1.4 (0.5-3.7) |
| Yes | 34 | 28 (82.4) | 6 (17.6) | |||
| Daily hours of information | 142 | 2 (1-3) | 4.5 (2-12) | .003#,⁎⁎ | - | |
| Number of information media | 182 | 2 (1-3) | 3 (2-4) | .226# | - | |
| Anxiety about the news | 179 | 8 (6-10) | 10 (9-10) | .006#,⁎⁎ | - | |
| Concerns about the news | 179 | 10 (8-10) | 10 (9-10) | .041#,* | - | |
| Concerns about the number of deaths | No | 22 | 19 (86.4) | 3 (13.6) | 1.000 | 1.1 (0.3-3.9) |
| Yes | 162 | 137 (85.6) | 23 (14.4) | |||
| Concerns about the lack of beds | No | 77 | 66 (86.8) | 10 (13.2) | .878 | 1.2 (0.5-2.7) |
| Yes | 107 | 90 (84.9) | 16 (15.1) | |||
| Concerns about politics | No | 159 | 134 (85.4) | 23 (14.6) | 1.000 | 0.8 (0.2-2.9) |
| Yes | 25 | 22 (88) | 3 (12.0) | |||
| Concerns about aspects of the economy | No | 143 | 120 (85.1) | 21 (14.9) | .856 | 0.8 (0.3-2.3) |
| Yes | 41 | 36 (87.8) | 5 (12.2) | |||
Analysis by the chi-square test and correction by Fisher's exact test when necessary unless indicated
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Mann-Whitney test. IQR: interquartile range.
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<.05,
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<.01,
⁎⁎⁎<.0001