Table 1.
Characteristics of participants enrolled in the Zurich SARS-CoV-2 cohort study.
Fig 1.
Mental burden of isolation—Negative emotional states in the first month after positive SARS-CoV-2 test result.
Proportion of the population reporting symptoms of depression, anxiety, or stress through self-reported questionnaire at 3 different timepoints; before being diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection, during isolation and 30 days after diagnosis, when isolation has ended. Results are reported overall and by symptom severity (i.e., moderate or severe), as well as stratified by age groups and subgroups of self-reported COVID-19 symptoms at infection. Out of 1105 participants, 1095 (99%) completed the baseline questionnaire, 964 (87%) completed the week two and 1050 (95%) the one-month questionnaire. We excluded 26 (2·3%) individuals due to large time differences between the positive test result and completion of the baseline questionnaire. The week two questionnaire was not available for 141 participants due to late recruitment.
Fig 2.
Mental burden of isolation—Worries and positive aspects of isolation.
a) visualizes 10 worries of isolation prespecified in the questionnaire and the percentage of the population affected with different levels of concern asked in Likert scale from extremely worried to not worried at all. b) visualizes 8 possible positive effects of isolation prespecified in the questionnaire and the percentage of the population who perceived those as such, asked in Likert scale from strongly agree to strongly disagree.
Table 2.
Influence of sociodemographic background on perceived difficulty of Isolation in multivariable ordinal regression.
Table 3.
Influence of sociodemographic background on complying to Isolation recommendations in multivariable ordinal regression.
Fig 3.
Specific difficulties of isolation—Problematic aspects when undergoing the time in confinement.
Visualizes the percentage of the population affected by 5 difficult aspects of isolation prespecified in the questionnaire, on Likert scale from very difficult to very easy.