Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the study participants in Jeddah and Taif cities during the early COVID-19 pandemic (n = 638)
Characteristics | No. | % |
|---|---|---|
Gender | ||
- Male | 218 | 34.2 |
- Female | 420 | 65.8 |
Age (years) | ||
- 18–25 | 98 | 15.3 |
26–35 | 137 | 21.6 |
- 36–45 | 159 | 24.8 |
46–55 | 124 | 19.5 |
56–65 | 82 | 12.8 |
66 + | 38 | 6 |
Marital status | ||
- Single | 222 | 34.8 |
- Married | 364 | 57.1 |
- Widow/divorced | 52 | 8.1 |
Educational level | ||
- Low | 56 | 8.5 |
- University | 344 | 54.0 |
- Higher | 238 | 37.5 |
Job | ||
- Governmental employee | 198 | 31 |
- Non-Governmental employee | 198 | 31 |
- Business | 6 | 0.9 |
- Student | 98 | 15.4 |
- Retired | 30 | 4.7 |
- Housewife/Unemployed | 108 | 17.0 |
Income (SAR/month) | ||
- Less than 3000 | 30 | 4.7 |
- 3000– | 72 | 11.3 |
- 6000– | 108 | 16.9 |
- 10,000– | 134 | 21 |
- More than 15,000 | 294 | 46.1 |
Financial status affected due to COVID-19 | ||
- Not affected | 348 | 54.5 |
- Decreased | 208 | 32.6 |
- Improved | 82 | 12.9 |
Smoking history | ||
- Non-smoker | 504 | 79 |
- Smoker | 134 | 21 |
Type of smoking (n = 134) | ||
- Cigarettes only | 58 | 43.2 |
- Shisha only | 56 | 41.8 |
- Others/mixed | 20 | 15 |
Frequency per day | ||
- 20 times + | 16 | 12 |
- 11–19 times | 18 | 13..3 |
- 5–10 times | 24 | 18.0 |
- Less than 5 times | 76 | 56.7 |
Medical history | ||
- Negative | 488 | 76.5 |
- Positive | 150 | 23.5 |
COVID-19 prior-diagnosis | ||
- Negative | 624 | 97.8 |
- Positive | 14 | 2.2 |
Contact with cases with confirmed COVID-19 | ||
- No | 542 | 85 |
- Yes | 96 | 15 |