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Table 8 Presence of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) 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

 

Depression

Anxiety

Stress

Lockdown

Post-lockdown

Lockdown

Post-lockdown

Lockdown

Post-lockdown

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

Persons

 Normal

193

65.0

216

72.2

237

80.1

246

82.0

226

80.7

252

85.1

 Mild

32

10.8

30

10.0

16

5.4

19

6.3

20

7.1

15

5.1

 Moderate

36

12.1

26

8.7

14

4.7

9

3.0

19

6.8

9

3.0

 Severe

10

3.4

10

3.3

10

3.4

9

3.0

14

5.0

17

5.7

 Extremely severe

26

8.8

17

5.7

19

6.4

17

5.7

1

0.4

3

1.0

 Wilcoxon sign rank (Z)

−2.71**, d = 0.22

−0.98, d = 0.08

−1.99*, d = 0.17

Males

 Normal

46

65.7

46

65.7

59

84.3

60

84.5

55

84.6

60

85.7

 Mild

6

8.6

6

8.6

3

4.3

5

7.0

6

9.2

3

4.3

 Moderate

9

12.9

9

12.9

3

4.3

1

1.4

2

3.1

3

4.3

 Severe

2

2.9

2

2.9

–

0.0

1

1.4

2

3.1

3

4.3

 Extremely severe

7

10.0

7

10.0

5

7.1

4

5.6

–

0.0

1

1.4

 Wilcoxon sign rank (Z)

−1.89, d = 0.32

−0.30, d = 0.05

−0.81, d = 0.14

Females

 Normal

146

64.6

163

71.8

177

78.7

185

81.1

170

79.4

191

84.9

 Mild

26

11.5

24

10.6

13

5.8

14

6.1

14

6.5

12

5.3

 Moderate

27

11.9

18

7.9

11

4.9

8

3.5

17

7.9

6

2.7

 Severe

8

3.5

8

3.5

10

4.4

8

3.5

12

5.6

14

6.2

 Extremely severe

19

8.4

14

6.2

14

6.2

13

5.7

1

0.5

2

0.9

 Wilcoxon sign rank (Z)

−2.09*, d = 0.20

−0.87, d = 0.08

−1.82, d = 0.18

  1. Note. * = p-value < 0.05; ** = p-value < 0.01; d = Cohen’s D