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. 2011 Nov 16;11:871. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-871

Table 3.

Comparison of the health status of female public health students and their peers

Public health students (19-25 years females) National health interview survey 2003 (19-25 years females) p value
Perceived health is very good or good 68% 77% 0.079

Can do much/very much for their health 97% 88% 0.005

BMI (mean) 21.17 21.89 0.078

Above the threshold on GHQ 19.83% 12.20% 0.044

Severely lack of social support 12.71% 12.29% 0.907

Nutrition Breakfast every day 48% 61% 0.013

Daily fruit & vegetable consumption 55% 56% 0.906

Smoking Non-smokers 46% 51% 0.373

Daily smokers 27% 31% 0.402

Alcohol consumption 75% 44% <0.001

Comparison of some health measures and health behaviour of female public health students and females of the same age group (19-25 years) of the Hungarian National Health Interview Survey 2003. Indicators significantly worse in public health students are highlighted in bold; indicators significantly better in public health students are highlighted in italic.