*2.3. Statistical Analysis*

Descriptive statistics of both the psychiatric patient and the healthy control groups were collected in order to summarize the variables. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests were run to identify differences between groups in their scores for Risk Perception, the BRCS, Worry, and DASS-21 Depression, Anxiety, and Stress. Two multiple linear regressions were performed using the enter and stepwise methods, respectively, to compute associations between sociodemographic variables (i.e., age, gender, education), the presence/absence of diagnosis, Risk Perception, and Worry (used as independent variables); and DASS-21 Anxiety and Stress (used as dependent variables). DASS-21 Depression was excluded because no differences were found between groups. All statistical analyses were conducted using the software package SPSS, version 25.

## **3. Results**
