Media consumption patterns and depressive and anxiety symptoms in the Chinese general population during the COVID-19 outbreak

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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 (n = 839)	Cluster 2 (n = 1209)	Cluster 3 (n = 1007)	Cluster 4 (n = 940)	Cluster 5 (n = 1469)	Cluster 6 (n = 1587)	Cluster 7 (n = 1422)	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
WeChat	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
QQ	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
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v15.i4.104625