Table 2.
Sociodemographic characteristics according to the severity of the clinical symptoms of COVID-19
| Variable | Clinical symptoms of COVID-19 |
p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mild (N = 155) | moderate (N = 337) | severe (N = 76) | ||
| Gender, n (%) | ||||
| Male | 58 (27.1) | 123 (57.5) | 33 (15.4) | 0.5194 |
| Female | 97 (27.4) | 214 (60.4) | 43 (12.2) | |
| Median age (IQR) | 23.0 (3.75) | 23.0 (3.0) | 23.0 (3.0) | 0.289 |
| Type of faculty, n (%) | ||||
| Medical sciences | 18 (33.3) | 33 (61.1) | 3 (5.6) | |
| Social science and humanities | 51 (27.7) | 114 (62.0) | 19 (10.3) | 0.1989 |
| Natural science and mathematics | 41 (4.3) | 19 (67.9) | 5 (17.9) | |
| Technology and engineering sciences | 46 (27.7) | 92 (54.4) | 31 (18.3) | |
| Other* | 36 (27.1) | 79 (59.4) | 18 (13.5) | |
| Living in student dormitory, n (%) | ||||
| Yes | 19 (30.2) | 35 (55.5) | 9 (14.3) | 0.801 |
| No | 136 (29.9) | 302 (59.8) | 67 (13.3) | |
| Having had COVID-19 before, n (%) | ||||
| Yes | 8 (25.0) | 22 (68.7) | 2 (6.3) | 0.4574 |
| No | 147 (27.4) | 315 (58.8) | 74 (13.8) | |
| Vaccination status, n (%) | ||||
| Not vaccinated | 81 (18.4) | 281 (64.7) | 73 (16.9) | <0.001 |
| Received as least 1 dose | 74 (55.6) | 56 (42.1) | 3 (2.3) | |
| Location of the exposure to COVID-19, n (%) | ||||
| Does not know | 48 (25.7) | 116 (62.0) | 23 (12.3) | |
| Contact with familiar person(s)† | 58 (32.0) | 104 (57.5) | 19 (10.5) | |
| Travel/tourism | 16 (22.9) | 40 (57.1) | 14 (20.0) | 0.4628 |
| At work‡ | 8 (18.2) | 29 (65.9) | 7 (15.9) | |
| At sport activities | 1 (25.0) | 2 (50.0) | 1 (25.0) | |
| Parties/meet-ups/social outings | 24 (30.0) | 46 (56.1) | 12 (14.6) | |
IQR, interquartile range; p, probability.
*
Other type of faculties: college, private universities, art schools, and police academy.
†
Either family members or friends/acquaintances/partners.
‡
Those students who do paid work while studying; Fisher's exact test was used to test variables having had COVID-19 before and the location of the exposure to COVID-19; all other variables were tested using the χ2 test.