Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of Korean adolescents according to the presence of depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic
| Variables | N (%) | Depression (+) |
Anxiety (+) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | χ2 | p | N (%) | χ2 | p | ||
| Sex (N=1,732) | 11.578 | <0.001*** | 8.967 | 0.003** | |||
| Male | 955 (55.1) | 108 (11.3) | 175 (18.3) | ||||
| Female | 777 (44.9) | 132 (17.0) | 189 (24.3) | ||||
| School level (N=1,732) | 1.512 | 0.219 | 0.162 | 0.687 | |||
| Middle school | 1,279 (73.8) | 185 (14.5) | 264 (20.6) | ||||
| High school | 453 (26.2) | 55 (12.1) | 100 (22.1) | ||||
| Religious (N=1,711) | 0.661 | 0.416 | 0.339 | 0.560 | |||
| Yes | 473 (27.6) | 71 (15.0) | 105 (22.2) | ||||
| No | 1,238 (72.4) | 167 (13.5) | 257 (20.8) | ||||
| Academic achievement level (N=1,677) | 1.042 | 0.594 | 5.435 | 0.066 | |||
| Good | 567 (33.8) | 72 (12.7) | 101 (17.8) | ||||
| Average | 622 (37.1) | 91 (14.6) | 139 (22.3) | ||||
| Poor | 488 (29.1) | 70 (13.9) | 112 (23.0) | ||||
| Underlying mental illness (N=1,725) | 0.531 | 0.466 | 0.355 | 0.551 | |||
| Yes | 9 (0.5) | 2 (22.2) | 1 (11.1) | ||||
| No | 1,716 (99.5) | 237 (13.8) | 363 (21.2) | ||||
| Underlying physical illness (N=1,726) | 1.936 | 0.164 | 0.632 | 0.427 | |||
| Yes | 78 (4.5) | 15 (19.2) | 19 (24.4) | ||||
| No | 1,648 (95.5) | 225 (13.7) | 345 (20.9) | ||||
**
p<0.01;
***
p<0.001