Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics, breakfast consumption, intake of foods high in saturated fats, and BMI according to academic fields.
| Characteristics | All N = 4,561 | Medical, n = 1,464 (32.1%) | Non-Medical n = 3,097 (67.9%) | pa | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Age (M ± SD) | 21.5 | 3.4 | 21.3 | 3.1 | 21.7 | 3.5 | 0.153 |
| Age (years) | < 0.001 | ||||||
| 18–19 | 879 | 19.3 | 399 | 27.3 | 480 | 15.5 | |
| 20–24 | 3,004 | 65.9 | 873 | 59.6 | 2,131 | 68.8 | |
| 25–29 | 678 | 14.8 | 192 | 13.1 | 486 | 15.7 | |
| Sex | < 0.001 | ||||||
| Female | 2,481 | 54.4 | 1,094 | 74.7 | 1,387 | 44.8 | |
| Male | 2,080 | 45.6 | 370 | 25.3 | 1,710 | 55.2 | |
| Education of parents | 0.059 | ||||||
| None/Primary | 1,636 | 35.9 | 530 | 36.2 | 1,106 | 35.7 | |
| High school | 975 | 21.4 | 275 | 18.8 | 700 | 22.6 | |
| Technical | 811 | 17.8 | 250 | 17.1 | 561 | 18.1 | |
| Bachelor's Degree | 704 | 15.4 | 255 | 17.4 | 449 | 14.5 | |
| Postgraduate | 435 | 9.5 | 154 | 10.5 | 281 | 9.1 | |
| Religious affiliation | 0.010 | ||||||
| Seventh-day Adventist | 2,637 | 57.8 | 859 | 58.7 | 1,778 | 57.4 | |
| Non-Adventist | 1,924 | 42.2 | 605 | 41.3 | 1,319 | 42.6 | |
| Marital status | < 0.001 | ||||||
| Married | 276 | 6.1 | 72 | 4.9 | 204 | 6.6 | |
| Singles | 4,285 | 93.9 | 1,392 | 95.1 | 2,893 | 93.4 | |
| Breakfast consumption | 0.024 | ||||||
| Regular (6 to 7 days/week) | 2,536 | 55.6 | 848 | 57.9 | 1,688 | 54.5 | |
| Occasional (3 to 5 days/week) | 1,282 | 28.1 | 384 | 26.2 | 898 | 29 | |
| Rarely or never (0 to 2 days/week) | 743 | 16.3 | 232 | 15.9 | 511 | 16.5 | |
| Consumption of foods high in saturated fats | < 0.001 | ||||||
| Low | 302 | 6.2 | 107 | 7.3 | 195 | 6.3 | |
| Medium | 2,424 | 53.2 | 851 | 58.1 | 1,573 | 50.8 | |
| High | 1,835 | 40.4 | 506 | 34.6 | 1,329 | 42.9 | |
| Saturated fat consumption score (M ± SD) | 17.4 | 2.8 | 16.4 | 2.5 | 18.3 | 3.1 | < 0.001 |
| BMI (Categories) | 0.040 | ||||||
| Underweight | 119 | 2.6 | 44 | 3.0 | 75 | 2.4 | |
| Normal | 3,139 | 68.7 | 1,033 | 70.6 | 2,106 | 68.0 | |
| Obesity | 194 | 4.3 | 53 | 3.7 | 141 | 4.5 | |
| Overweight | 1,109 | 24.4 | 334 | 22.8 | 775 | 25.0 | |
| BMI score (M ± SD) | 23.6 | 3.2 | 23.5 | 3.1 | 23.8 | 3.2 | 0.004 |
M: Mean, SD: Standard Deviation; BMI: Body mass index.
aStudent's t-test and chi-square test of independence.