Table 4.
Comparison with other studies results.
| Authors | Year | Participants | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wassif et al. | 2019 | 390 medical students, all years | 66.1% of students reported higher stress levels |
| Aslan et al. | 2020 | 358 social and health science students from 14 universities | 71% of students reported higher level of perceived stress, 52% presented anxiety symptoms and 62% depression symptoms |
| Owczarek et al. | 2020 | 105 physiotherapy and dentistry students | Mean results in both groups indicated a high level of perceived stress in both groups |
| Tucker et al. | 2006 | 434 physiotherapy students | Female students reported higher academic stress than male, academic factors were the most stressful |
| Hodselmans et al. | 2018 | 116 physiotherapy students | Female students were more vulnerable to stress |
| Moutinho et al. | 2017 | 761 medical students | 47.1% of students reported stress symptoms, women were more vulnerable to stress |
| Eller et al. | 2006 | 413 medical students | 21.9% of students reported anxiety symptoms, 30.6% reported depression symptoms – both higher in females |
| Volken et al. | 2021 | 3,571 students +2,328 swiss national population | Female students had higher prevalence of depressive symptoms, than matching female population |
| Pacheco et al. | 2017 | Meta-analysis of 59 studies (on medical students) | Female gender was significantly associated with depression, anxiety and stress |
| Cetinkaya et al. | 2022 | 219 nursing students | Female students reported higher anxiety scale scores |
| Akgun et al. | 2003 | 141 university students | No relationship found between stress and gender |
| Jacob et al. | 2013 | 312 physiotherapy, communication disorder and nutrition sciences students | Academic factors were the most stressful, perceived stress correlated with grading stress factors |
| Lavoie-Tremblay et al. | 2022 | 26 nursing students | Academic sources of stress were the most stressful |
| Ghrouz et al. | 2019 | 617 college students | 30% of students reported anxiety and 18% depression 51% reported low physical levels, 51% poor sleep quality, correlation between higher physical activity and lower anxiety and depression was found. Poor quality was significantly positively associated with anxiety and depression |
| Chowdhury et al. | 2017 | 460 university students | 46.3% of students reported higher stress levels, most stressful were academic factors (vastness of the school curriculum and frequent tests) |
| Ribeiro et al. | 2018 | Review | Found association between higher levels of stress and subjective QoL, connection found between PSQI and QoL |
| Pagnin et al. | 2014 | 127 medical students | 65% of students reported sleeping problems, only 20% of students slept 7+ hours/day |
| Džaferović et al. | 2023 | 125 medical students | 75.8% of students suffered from poor sleep quality, 64.8% of students slept more than 7 h, 10.4% of students used sleep medication |
| Carpi et al. | 2022 | 1,279 university students | 65% of students reported poor sleep quality |
| Rafidah et al. | 2009 | 141 technology university students | Students reported sleeping problems, bad quality of diet |
| Sk et al. | 2017 | 576 medical students | 70.4% of students reported sleeping problems (more in female) |
| Preišegolavičiūtė et al. | 2010 | 450 medical, law, business and economy students | 59.4% of students reported sleeping problems (more in female), 5.9% used sleeping medication, connection between QoL and quality of sleep was found |
| Rathi et al. | 2018 | 166 university students | Only 32.5% of students reported sleeping problems, poor sleep was more frequent among females |
| Corrêa et al. | 2017 | 450 medical students | Only 39.5% of students reported sleeping problems, 8.6% used sleep medications |
| Zailinawati et al. | 2009 | 555 medical students | Only 16.1% of students reported bad sleep quality, 3.9% used sleeping medication |
| Taylor et al. | 2013 | 1,074 college students | Connection between worse quality of sleep and higher reported stress was found |
| Alyoubi et al. | 2021 | 582 university students | Higher level of insomnia was associated with higher levels of stress |
| Ramón-Arbués et al. | 2022 | 868 university students | Higher satisfaction with sleep and diet quality were associated with higher QoL |
| Bernal-Orozco et al. | 2020 | 276 medical, nutrition and dentistry | Students reported poor quality of diet |
| Hilger et al. | 2017 | 689 university students | Students reported poor quality of diet |
| Breitenbach et al. | 2016 | 5,174 university students | 35.4% of students consumed one alcoholic drink/week |
| Mogre et al. | 2018 | 207 medical students | Education in nutrition is important for 92% of students, 70% of theme were dissatisfied with their education |
| Szypowska et al. | 2020 | 165 cosmetology and physiotherapy students | Students reported poor quality of diet |
| Ranasinghe et al. | 2018 | 115 physiotherapy students | Only 16% of students were HEPA and 48.7% were inactive |
| Rodríguez-Larrad et al. | 2021 | 13,756 university students | Students are in accordance with WHO recommendations to 1,200–3,000 METS-min/week |
| Kgokong et al. | 2020 | 296 physiotherapy students | Only 37.5% of students engaged in high physical activity |
| Zalewska et al. | 2021 | 141 physiotherapy students | Only 19.9% of students fulfilled HEPA, and 40.4% had low physical activity, more physical activity had positive effect on mental health |
| Dąbrowska-Galas | 2021 | 308 medical students | Only 19% of students were inactive |
| Kowalska et al. | 2021 | 110 physiotherapy students | Relationship between good mental health/lower stress and higher physical activity has been confirmed |
| Chew et al. | 2019 | 633 medical students | For 94.8% of students’ physical activity can lead to preventing diseases and to 70.9% it can treat diseases |
| Pacheco Salles et al. | 2022 | 218 physiotherapy students | Relationship between good mental health/lower stress and higher physical activity has been confirmed |
| Memon et al. | 2021 | Meta-analysis of 29 studies | No connection between physical activity and quality of sleep |