Table 3.

Effects of COVID-199 on older adults in New York City

	Total		White		Black		Latinx		Another race		P-value
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
In the past 3 months, how much has worrying about someone who has or had COVID impacted you?
Not at all	235	35.1	132	39	52	36.3	24	28	22	34.7	0.19
A little	148	21.6	83	24.8	36	21.1	15	18.6	10	13.9
Somewhat	158	23.5	82	21.4	34	19.2	20	27.6	19	31.7
A lot	125	19.8	55	14.7	35	23.4	19	25.8	13	19.7
In the past 3 months, how much has not seeing friends or family in person, or being isolated because of COVID impacted you?
Not at all	130	21	51	16.1	36	22.5	21	24.4	19	32.9	0.2
A little	143	21.4	69	19	38	23.9	18	24.5	14	17.6
Somewhat	176	24.4	99	25.5	41	24.4	20	25.2	12	22.1
A lot	223	33.3	134	39.3	45	29.1	21	25.8	19	27.5
In the past 3 months, how much has thinking about yourself, or others, dying because of COVID impacted you?
Not at all	151	21.9	92	28	31	18.4	14	16.9	13	18.9	0.2
A little	164	24.6	92	26	28	17.7	19	26	17	24.9
Somewhat	201	27.4	106	26.6	52	32.6	22	26.1	19	28.3
A lot	154	26.1	60	19.4	49	31.4	27	31	14	28
How much has COVID-19 affected your life in a negative way?
Not at all	101	17	29	8.8	34	24	23	26.2	15	22.3	<0.01
A little	124	20.1	60	19.3	30	19	19	24.1	12	20.4
Somewhat	218	30.5	122	32.6	54	28.9	16	25	22	36.3
A lot	230	32.4	141	39.3	42	28.1	24	24.8	16	21.1
How much has the pandemic created financial problems for you and your household?
Not at all	350	50.5	212	58.4	67	43.5	35	41.6	31	50.3	0.07
A little	133	18.9	61	17.2	35	19.1	22	24.9	12	18
Somewhat	129	18.1	59	18.1	42	22.5	12	15.5	13	16.7
A lot	61	12.5	21	6.2	16	14.9	11	18.1	9	14.9
Since COVID started, which of the following best describes the food eaten in your household?
Had enough of foods you wanted to eat	487	71.3	281	79.2	104	67.6	50	63.2	44	68.7	<0.01
Had enough food but not foods you wanted to eat	140	21.2	63	18.9	38	24.8	22	25.1	11	13.8
Sometimes not enough food to eat	29	5.6	5	1.7	7	4.3	8	10.5	9	14.5
Often not enough to eat	8	1.9	1	0.1	4	3.3	1	1.2	1	3
Since COVID started, would you say you interact with people outside of your home
A lot or a little less	569	85.2	312	87.5	130	82.9	63	82.2	52	83.3	0.78
About the same	74	11.8	31	9.3	22	14.5	13	15.4	6	11.9
A little or a lot more	20	3	9	3.2	6	2.6	1	2.4	4	4.7
History of anxiety
Yes	102	14.9	52	14.9	19	11.3	20	22.3	9	8.5	0.07
No	569	85.1	298	85.1	140	88.7	62	77.7	56	91.5
History of depression
Yes	143	19	86	22.5	21	13.3	18	18.8	12	13.4	0.18
No	528	81	265	77.5	138	86.7	64	81.2	52	86.6
Screened likely for anxiety
Yes	106	16.5	51	14.8	23	15.7	16	19.4	11	14.5	0.8
No	570	83.5	303	85.2	137	84.3	66	80.6	54	85.5
Screened likely for depression
Yes	115	17.8	55	14.5	26	14.5	23	28.6	9	14.8	0.04
No	561	82.2	299	85.5	134	85.5	59	71.4	56	85.2