Reduction in COVID-19 related resource loss and decline in prevalence of probable depression in Chinese adults: an application of the Conservation of Resource Theory

Table 1 Characteristics of the two samples

	Overall	Round 1	Round 2	P of Chi-square
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	P of Chi-square
Overall	667	209	458
Age (Mean, SD)^†	45.5, 13.6	46.7, 13.0	45.0, 13.8	0.124
Sex
Female	398 (59.7)	125 (59.8)	273 (59.6)	0.961
Male	269 (40.3)	84 (40.2)	185 (40.4)	0.961
Educational level^¶
< College	442 (67.4)	129 (62.6)	313 (69.6)	0.079
≥ College	214 (32.6)	77 (37.4)	137 (30.4)	0.079
Marital status^¶
Others	453 (68.1)	139 (66.5)	314 (68.9)	0.546
Married	212 (31.9)	70 (33.5)	142 (31.1)	0.546
Chronic disease status^¶
No	530 (79.5)	169 (80.9)	361 (78.8)	0.545
Yes	137 (20.5)	40 (19.1)	97 (21.2)	0.545
Probable depression^¶
None-to-mild (PHQ-9 < 10)	603 (96.5)	191 (91.4)	412 (99.0)	< 0.001
Moderate-to-severe (PHQ-9 ≥ 10)	22 (3.5)	18 (8.6)	4 (1.0)	< 0.001

SD: Standard deviation; PHQ-9: The 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire. ^†t-test was conducted to test the between-group difference. ^¶Missing data was excluded from data analyses (less than 2%)

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