*3.5. Variables Related to Contact History in the Past 14 Days and Psychological Distress*

As regards contact history in the last 14 days (Table 5), 36.1% of the participants reported having had or not knowing if they had had close contact with an individual with confirmed infection with COVID-19. Of these, 37.1% of respondents claimed that the contact was casual, and 43.0% stated they had had or did not know if they had had contact with any person or material suspected of being infected with COVID-19. As for the presence of people infected with COVID-19 in the participants' immediate circle, 91.2% indicated not having any infected family member. A statistically significant relationship with the presence of psychological distress (*p* ≤ 0.001 in all cases) was found for all contact history variables in the last 14 days. Nevertheless, the effect sizes were negligible.

**Table 5.** Association between contact history variables in the past 14 days and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic (*n* = 2120).

