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Table 1 Participant characteristics according to home-schooling status

From: Psychosocial impacts of home-schooling on parents and caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic

 

No school-aged children (n=606)

Home-schooling children (n=180)

Not home-schooling children (n=85)

  
 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

F

p

Psychological distress (DQ5)

10.01

4.88

11.54

5.33

9.82

5.29

6.90

0.001

Work/social impairment (WSAS)

12.89

9.13

16.25

9.83

12.12

8.01

10.40

<0.001

Wellbeing (WHO-5)

52.04

25.08

50.36

23.98

51.53

26.74

0.32

0.730

Age

50.79

17.46

42.51

10.31

56.88

13.46

28.64

<0.001

 

n

%

n

%

n

%

χ2

p

Mental health diagnosis

      

1.61

0.808

  Past

112

18.5%

29

16.1%

12

14.1%

  

  Current

143

23.6%

44

24.4%

19

22.4%

  

  Never

351

57.9%

107

59.4%

54

63.5%

  

Gender

      

5.27

0.261

  Male

310

51.2%

87

48.3%

48

56.5%

  

  Female

296

48.8%

92

51.1%

37

43.5%

  

  Prefer not to answer

0

0.0%

1

0.6%

0

0.0%

  

Educational attainment

      

22.74

0.004

  Secondary School

173

28.5%

35

19.4%

24

28.2%

  

  Certificate or diploma

219

36.1%

54

30.0%

37

43.5%

  

  Bachelor’s degree

180

29.7%

82

45.6%

23

27.1%

  

  Higher degree

30

5.0%

7

3.9%

1

1.2%

  

  Prefer not to answer

4

0.7%

2

1.1%

0

0.0%

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