Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics of the sample (N = 351)
| Total (N = 351) | Ages 13–17 (n = 223, 63.5%) | Ages 18–21 (n = 128, 36.5%) | P-value* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Race/ethnicity | 0.130 | ||||||
| Hispanic | 260 | 75.1 | 171 | 78.1 | 89 | 70.1 | |
| Non-Hispanic White | 16 | 4.6 | 10 | 4.6 | 6 | 4.7 | |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 16 | 4.6 | 6 | 2.7 | 10 | 7.9 | |
| Non-Hispanic Other | 54 | 15.6 | 32 | 14.6 | 22 | 17.2 | |
| Gender | 0.073 | ||||||
| Female | 250 | 71.6 | 168 | 75.7 | 82 | 64.6 | |
| Male | 94 | 26.9 | 50 | 22.5 | 44 | 34.7 | |
| Transgender | 3 | 0.9 | 2 | 0.9 | 1 | 0.8 | |
| Gender-queer/Non-binary | 2 | 0.6 | 2 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Sexual orientation | 0.569 | ||||||
| Straight/heterosexual | 285 | 82.9 | 179 | 81.7 | 106 | 84.8 | |
| LGBQ | 46 | 13.4 | 30 | 13.7 | 16 | 12.8 | |
| Questioning/not sure | 13 | 3.8 | 10 | 4.6 | 3 | 2.4 | |
| School enrollment | < 0.001 | ||||||
| In middle/high school | 206 | 59.0 | 191 | 86.0 | 15 | 11.8 | |
| In college | 57 | 16.3 | 9 | 4.1 | 48 | 37.8 | |
| Not in school | 86 | 24.6 | 22 | 9.9 | 64 | 50.4 | |
| Full or part-time job | 70 | 20.2 | 23 | 10.4 | 47 | 37.3 | < 0.001 |
| Living with parents | 320 | 91.4 | 215 | 96.4 | 105 | 82.7 | < 0.001 |
| Knows someone infected by coronavirus | 84 | 25.1 | 54 | 25.1 | 30 | 25.0 | 0.981 |
| How worried are you that you will catch COVID-19? | 0.465 | ||||||
| Very worried | 59 | 17.7 | 35 | 16.4 | 24 | 20.0 | |
| Somewhat worried | 188 | 56.3 | 119 | 55.6 | 69 | 57.5 | |
| Not at all worried | 87 | 26.1 | 60 | 28.0 | 27 | 22.5 | |
* p-value based on chi-square test comparing adolescents (ages 13–17) and young adults (ages 18–21)