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Table 2 PHQ-9 scores of 1626 university students during the follow-up period in the HCT’s seasonal cohorts

From: Dynamics of depressive states among university students in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time series analysis

Time

8w

12w

16w

20w

24w

28w

32w

36w

40w

44w

48w

52w

Autumn (n = 522)

 Valid %

93.3

74.1

73.6

68.8

77.6

62.3

60.9

56.1

56.1

55.9

54.8

81.4

PHQ–9

 Mean

5.0

5.4

5.5

5.3

5.3

5.9

6.1

5.9

5.8

5.7

5.5

5.6

 Median

4.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

4.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

4.5

5.0

4.0

 Range

0–22

0–22

0–21

0–20

0–27

0–25

0–27

0–23

0–24

0–20

0–23

0–26

 IQR

2.0–7.0

2.0–7.0

2.0–8.0

2.0–8.0

2.0–8.0

2.5–8.0

2.0–9.0

2.0–9.0

2.0–8.0

2.0–9.0

2.0–8.0

2.0–8.0

Spring (n = 1104)

 Valid %

92.8

73.3

70.4

66.5

72.6

60.7

59.1

58.2

55.4

58.2

60.0

80.3

PHQ-9

 Mean

5.3

5.4

5.2

4.9

5.3

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.3

5.0

4.8

5.1

 Median

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

 Range

0–24

0–26

0–24

0–26

0–24

1–27

0–25

0–25

0–27

0–24

0–26

0–24

 IQR

2.0–7.0

2.0–8.0

2.0–7.0

2.0–7.0

2.0–8.0

2.0–8.0

2.0–7.0

2.0–8.0

2.0–8.0

2.0–7.0

2.0–7.0

2.0–7.0

  1. HCT Healthy Campus Trial, IQR interquartile range, PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire-9, valid % is the percentage of observations in each evaluation point out of the total number in the seasonal cohort