Table 1.
Students’ sociodemographic characteristics, overall and by survey period. Results are expressed as mean (standard deviation, SD), median (interquartile range, IQR), or frequency (percentage, %). COVID-19: coronavirus disease 2019.
| Total | September– October 2021 |
November– December 2021 |
January– February 2022 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 5287 | N = 1240 | N = 2961 | N = 1086 | |
| Age, years | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 23.9 (4.5) | 24.5 (5.2) | 23.4 (4.0) | 24.6 (4.5) |
| Median (IQR) | 23.1 (21.2–25.2) | 23.2 (21.5–25.8) | 22.7 (21.0–24.6) | 23.8 (21.8–26.1) |
| Gender, N (%) | ||||
| Female | 3580 (67.7) | 823 (66.4) | 2015 (68.1) | 742 (68.3) |
| Male | 1707 (32.3) | 417 (33.6) | 946 (31.9) | 344 (31.7) |
| Nationality, N (%) | ||||
| Italian | 4632 (87.6) | 1036 (83.5) | 2651 (89.5) | 945 (87.0) |
| Non-Italian | 655 (12.4) | 204 (16.5) | 310 (10.5) | 141 (13.0) |
| Area of study, N (%) | ||||
| Healthcare | 1994 (37.7) | 463 (37.3) | 1152 (38.9) | 379 (34.9) |
| Science & Technology | 1628 (30.8) | 315 (25.4) | 960 (32.4) | 353 (32.5) |
| Social Sciences & Humanities | 1665 (31.5) | 462 (37.3) | 849 (28.7) | 354 (32.6) |
| Year of study, N (%) | ||||
| First or second | 3288 (62.2) | 719 (58.0) | 1833 (61.9) | 736 (67.8) |
| Third or above | 1999 (37.8) | 521 (42.0) | 1128 (38.1) | 350 (32.2) |
| Finances, N (%) | ||||
| Many difficulties | 237 (4.5) | 69 (5.6) | 126 (4.3) | 42 (3.9) |
| Some difficulties | 1339 (25.3) | 343 (27.7) | 706 (23.8) | 290 (26.7) |
| Managing well enough | 2753 (52.1) | 615 (49.6) | 1565 (52.9) | 573 (52.8) |
| Managing very well | 958 (18.1) | 213 (17.2) | 564 (19.0) | 181 (16.7) |
| Previous COVID-19 infection, N (%) | ||||
| No infection | 4709 (89.1) | 1113 (89.8) | 2702 (91.3) | 894 (82.3) |
| Asymptomatic or mild symptoms | 501 (9.5) | 112 (9.0) | 227 (7.7) | 162 (14.9) |
| Moderate or severe symptoms | 77 (1.5) | 15 (1.2) | 32 (1.1) | 30 (2.8) |