Table 1.
Comparison of summary statistics between the North American baseline sample (N = 4166) and the analytic sample (N = 2463).
| Variables |
Full Baseline Sample |
Final Analytic Sample |
p (t/χ2) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) or % |
Mean (SD) or % |
||||
| Depressive symptoms | |||||
| Baseline Depressed (CESD-10 ≥ 10) | 72.7% | 70.6% | .075 | ||
| Follow-up Depressed (CESD-10 ≥ 10) | – | 69.8% | |||
| Baseline CESD-10 | 13.50 | (5.51) | 13.12 | (5.44) | .007 |
| Follow-up CESD-10 | – | 12.91 | (5.29) | ||
| Age | 42.66 | (15.42) | 44.94 | (15.32) | <.001 |
| Health | 4.59 | (0.97) | 4.65 | (0.95) | .017 |
| Income | 2.43 | (1.24) | 2.47 | (1.23) | .203 |
| Gender | .405 | ||||
| Men | 14.5% | 14.6% | |||
| Women | 75.9% | 83.6% | |||
| Other | 1.8% | 1.7% | |||
| Ethnicity | .004 | ||||
| White | 84.0% | 88.4% | |||
| Other | 16.0% | 11.6% | |||
| Household Size | 2.56 | (1.39) | 2.48 | (1.37) | .011 |
| Countries | .526 | ||||
| Canada | 71.7% | 72.4% | |||
| USA | 28.3% | 27.6% | |||
| Primary stressors | |||||
| Self-threat | 3.20 | (0.91) | 3.22 | (0.89) | .441 |
| Other-threat | 2.86 | (1.09) | 2.83 | (1.07) | .233 |
| Secondary stressors | |||||
| Financial Insecurity | 2.45 | (1.09) | 2.39 | (1.09) | .030 |
| Occupational difficulty | 54.3% | 52.2% | .098 | ||
| Social Isolation | 55.4% | 53.4% | .124 | ||
| Resource Scarcity | 53.1% | 53.8% | .651 | ||
| Time at baseline | 24.11 | (17.69) | 23.48 | (15.93) | .134 |
Note. t-test was used with continuous variables and χ2 test with categorical variables. Time of baseline assessment was assessed as days elapsed between participants completing the baseline survey entry and the World Health Organization pandemic announcement (March 11, 2020; World Health Organization, 2020).