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Table 10 Level of loneliness for persons, males and females

From: Life in a time of COVID: a mixed method study of the changes in lifestyle, mental and psychosocial health during and after lockdown in Western Australians

 

Persons

Males

Females

Lockdown

Post-lockdown

Lockdown

Post-lockdown

Lockdown

Post-lockdown

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

Not lonely

91

30.8

135

45.2

20

28.2

35

48.6

71

31.8

100

44.2

Moderately

90

30.5

77

25.8

27

38.0

20

27.8

62

27.8

57

25.2

Severely

114

38.6

87

29.1

24

33.8

17

23.6

90

40.4

69

30.5

Total

295

100.0

299

100.0

71

100.0

72

100.0

223

100.0

226

100.0

Wilcoxon sign rank (Z)

−5.47***, d = 0.46

−3.55***, d = 0.62

−4.41***, d = 0.43

  1. Note. *** = p-value < 0.001; d = Cohen’s D