*3.3. General Mental Status, Negative Attitude, IES, Negative Health Impact by BMI*

As shown in Table 3, overweight participants of this study had significantly abnormal mental status (*p* = 0.000), higher negative attitude (*p* = 0.001) and increase in the IES score (impact of COVID-19 event) (*p* = 0.000). However, there was no significant association between negative health impact and bodyweight. Similarly, overweight subjects of this study have shown a relatively higher risk for abnormal mental status (1.279), negative attitude (1.189), the impact of COVID-19 (1.249) and negative health impact (1.096).

**Table 3.** General mental status, negative attitude, IES, negative health impact by body weight (BMI).


<sup>1</sup> Pearson chi-squared test; <sup>2</sup> risk estimate for 2 × 2 table.

#### *3.4. General Mental Status, Negative Attitude, IES, Negative Health Impact by Educational Level*

There was no significant association noted when we compared education level with changes in the general mental status, development of negative attitude due to COVID, the impact of the COVID-19 on their general lifestyle and overall negative impact. On the contrary, participants with low educational level had a comparatively higher risk estimate for abnormal mental status (1.057), negative attitude (1.171) and negative health impact (1.019) (Table 4).



<sup>1</sup> Pearson chi-squared test; <sup>2</sup> risk estimate for 2 × 2 table.


**Table 5.** Multiple linear regression analysis.

\* *p* value < 0.05 indicates significant comparison using chi-squared test.
