Table 3.
COVID experiences by language group.
| Language Spoken at Home | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newly Recruited CALD Participants | Existing Optimise Study Participants | ||||||||||
| Arabic (n = 43) | Dinka (n = 12) | Chinese (n = 33) | LOTE (n = 50) | English (n = 549) | |||||||
| Number of pts. | Number of pts. | Number of pts. | Number of pts. | Number of pts. | |||||||
| Ever Tested positive to COVID 1 | Yes | 4 | 9.3% | 1 | 8.3% | 0 | 0% | 17 | 34.0% | 154 | 27.8% |
| No/Prefer not to say | 39 | 90.7% | 11 | 91.7% | 33 | 100% | 33 | 66.0% | 399 | 72.2% | |
| Know someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19 | Yes | 24 | 55.8% | 12 | 100.0% | 6 | 18.2% | 38 | 76.0% | 527 | 95.3% |
| No | 17 | 39.5% | 0 | 0% | 26 | 78.8% | 12 | 24.0% | 26 | 4.7% | |
| Prefer not to say | 2 | 4.7% | 0 | 0% | 1 | 3% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| Experienced or Witnessed COVID-19 related racism | Yes | 8 | 18.6% | 2 | 16.7% | 16 | 48.5% | 22 | 44.0% | 205 | 37.1% |
| No | 35 | 81.4% | 10 | 83.3% | 17 | 51.5% | 28 | 56.0% | 348 | 62.9% | |
| GAD-7 Scores (mean, SD) | Mean | 5.4 | - | 3.4 | - | 3.4 | - | 4.82 | 5.92 | - | |
| SD | 4.9 | - | 4.3 | - | 4.0 | - | 4.92 | 5.27 | - | ||
1 A brief 7 item self-report measure of General Anxiety Disorder [46]; Footnote: Data for the first three variables are presented as counts and percentages, where the denominator is the total number of participants in each language group. LOTE—language other than English.