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. 2024 Nov 30;25:979. doi: 10.1186/s12891-024-08103-8

Table 2.

Lifestyle characteristics

Entire sample
(N = 235)
PRMDs 12 months
sample
(N = 86)
Non-PRMDs sample (N = 149) p values
Student job (yes) N (%) 113 (48%) 45 (52%) 68 (46%) 0.39
Regular meals (yes) N (%) 200 (85%) 76 (88%) 124 (83%) 0.38
Balanced diet (yes) N (%) 180 (77%) 69 (80%) 111 (74%) 0.40
Sleep duration
 - Hours/night (Mean ± SD) 7.1 ± 0.9 7.1 ± 0.9 7.2 ± 0.8 0.50
 - ≤ 7h N (%) 153 (65%) 56 (65%) 97 (65%) 1.00 
 - ≥ 8h N (%) 82 (35%) 30 (35%) 52 (35%) 1.00
Sleep quality (scale / 5) Mean ± SD 2.8 ± 1.3 3.0 ± 1.4 2.7 ± 1.2 0.056
Addiction N (%) 29 (12%) 11 (13%) 18 (12%) 0.73
Physical activity – WHO recommendations N (%) (n = 217)
 - Yes 86 (40%) 30 (39%) 56 (40%) 0.99
 - No 131 (60%) 47 (61%) 84 (60%)

In the last column, p-values resulting from the Chi2/t-tests comparing PRMDs and Non-PRMDs samples are provided