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Table 7 Presence of psychological distress using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) 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

%

Likely to be well

208

60.5

254

72.0

57

67.9

66

78.6

151

58.3

188

70.1

Moderate distress

50

14.5

39

11.0

13

15.5

6

7.1

36

13.9

32

11.9

Mild mental disorder

36

10.5

22

6.2

5

6.0

8

9.5

31

12.0

14

5.2

Severe mental disorder

50

14.5

38

10.8

9

10.7

4

4.8

41

15.8

34

12.7

Total

344

100.0

353

100.0

84

100.0

84

100.0

259

100.0

268

100.0

Wilcoxon sign rank (Z)

−5.21***, d = 0.41

−2.98**, d = 0.47

−4.49***, d = 0.39

  1. Note. ** = p-value < 0.01; *** = p-value < 0.001; d = Cohen’s D