Table 2.
Mean scores for new patient baseline psychological distress (BASE-6), depression (PHQ-9), and anxiety (GAD-7) are presented for each month from November 2019 to March 2021
| COHORT | MEAN (SD) |
MEDIAN |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BASE-6 | PHQ-9 | GAD-7 | DAST-10 | AUDIT | |
| November 2019 | 25.20 (10.81) | 12.28 (8.49) | 11.49 (6.30) | 0.5 | 1 |
| December 2019 | 25.42 (9.17) | 13.32 (7.06) | 12.09 (6.02) | 0 | 3 |
| January 2020 | 24.88 (9.09) | 12.72 (7.08) | 11.93 (5.73) | 0 | 3 |
| February 2020 | 23.46 (10.90) | 11.94 (7.09) | 10.26 (6.70) | 0 | 1 |
| March 2020 | 24.56 (10.01) | 11.53 (6.80) | 11.00 (5.95) | 0 | 1 |
| April 2020 | 22.91 (10.66) | 10.84 (7.24) | 10.85 (6.67) | 0 | 2 |
| May 2020 | 23.84 (10.33) | 11.84 (7.09) | 10.66 (6.40) | 0 | 2 |
| June 2020 | 24.56 (10.01) | 13.45 (6.58) | 13.04 (5.67) | 0 | 2 |
| July 2020 | 22.91 (10.66) | 12.38 (7.34) | 11.76 (6.39) | 0 | 2 |
| August 2020 | 23.84 (10.33) | 11.00 (7.06) | 11.12 (6.27) | 0 | 1 |
| September 2020 | 26.38 (9.79) | 10.27 (8.38) | 10.23 (6.74) | 0 | 1 |
| October 2020 | 25.80 (10.77) | 12.21 (7.30) | 11.64 (6.43) | 0 | 1 |
| November 2020 | 24.24 (9.93) | 10.56 (7.41) | 10.33 (6.49) | 0 | 1 |
| December 2020 | 22.71 (11.59) | 9.35 (8.28) | 9.17 (6.98) | 0 | 0 |
| January 2021 | 22.33 (10.93) | 10.75 (7.67) | 10.29 (6.49) | 0 | 1 |
| February 2021 | 22.72 (11.33) | 10.99 (7.53) | 10.57 (6.75) | 0 | 1.5 |
| March 2021 | 23.98 (10.62) | 11.46 (6.76) | 11.25 (6.16) | 0 | 1 |
| p-value | 0.14 | 0.01** | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.03* |
*
p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01.
AUDIT, alcohol use disorders identification test; BASE-6, brief adjustment scale-6; DAST-10, drug abuse screening test-10; GAD-7, generalized anxiety disorder-7; PHQ-9, patient health questionnaire-9; SD, standard deviation.
Note: Since drug use (DAST-10) and alcohol use (AUDIT) data were heavily skewed, the median total score is presented.