Psychological distress associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and suppression measures during the first wave in Belgium

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the study sample, unweighted

	March – April 2020^a N = 20,792 % (or mean)
Age (mean, std)	43.6 (14.9)
Gender:	72.4
Women	72.4
Men	27.6
Education:
Secondary or lower	13.6
Higher	79.5
Other	6.9
Social support:	29.4
Weak	29.4
Moderate	47.8
Strong	22.8
Psychological distress:	47.1
No	47.1
Yes	52.9
GHQ – 12 score (mean, std)	4.5 (3.5)
No. of days of confinement (mean, std)	5.6 (4.9)

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