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World J Psychiatry. Apr 19, 2025; 15(4): 104625
Published online Apr 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i4.104625
Published online Apr 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i4.104625
Table 2 Distribution of media sources and prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms across the seven clusters identified from the cluster analysis, n (%)
Cluster 1 | Cluster 2 | Cluster 3 | Cluster 4 | Cluster 5 | Cluster 6 | Cluster 7 | χ2 | P value | |
Source | |||||||||
Newspaper | 69 (8.2) | 618 (51.1) | 6 (0.6) | 3 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3507.478 | < 0.001 |
Television | 595 (70.9) | 1081 (89.4) | 106 (10.5) | 575 (61.2) | 1469 (100.0) | 766 (48.3) | 821 (57.7) | 2626.667 | < 0.001 |
Radio | 96 (11.4) | 971 (80.3) | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5956.988 | < 0.001 |
News portal | 579 (69.0) | 944 (78.1) | 571 (56.7) | 624 (66.4) | 905 (61.6) | 1587 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3444.272 | < 0.001 |
0 (0.0) | 1109 (91.7) | 888 (88.2) | 901 (95.9) | 1339 (91.2) | 1426 (89.9) | 1256 (88.3) | 4174.147 | < 0.001 | |
85 (10.1) | 441 (36.5) | 26 (2.6) | 940 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5840.988 | < 0.001 | |
MicroBlog | 6 (0.7) | 597 (49.4) | 580 (57.6) | 458 (48.7) | 704 (47.9) | 672 (42.3) | 709 (49.9) | 767.076 | < 0.001 |
News client | 570 (67.9) | 825 (68.2) | 105 (10.4) | 517 (55.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1587 (100.0) | 1422 (100.0) | 5276.014 | < 0.001 |
Others | 43 (5.1) | 82 (6.8) | 274 (27.2) | 42 (4.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1241.279 | < 0.001 |
Depressive symptoms | 244 (29.1) | 385 (31.8) | 434 (43.1) | 310 (33.0) | 544 (37.0) | 622 (39.2) | 574 (40.4) | 69.080 | < 0.001 |
Anxiety symptoms | 191 (22.8) | 303 (25.1) | 344 (34.2) | 254 (27.0) | 464 (31.6) | 540 (34.0) | 509 (35.8) | 80.613 | < 0.001 |
- Citation: Wu RY, Ge LF, Zhong BL. Media consumption patterns and depressive and anxiety symptoms in the Chinese general population during the COVID-19 outbreak. World J Psychiatry 2025; 15(4): 104625
- URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/2220-3206/full/v15/i4/104625.htm
- DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v15.i4.104625