Table 1.

Characteristics^a of the participants stratified by psychological distress levels^b from the Swiss Health Survey [50]

Distress level		low	moderate	high
n, unweighted		16,552	2721	947
Age (years), mean (SD)		47.0 (0.18)	46.8 (0.50)	46.6 (0.67)
		%	%	%
Total		82.0	13.4	4.6
Age (years)	15–24	13.8	13.2	8.9
	25–34	15.6	17.1	16.4
	35–44	16.7	17.1	20.1
	45–54	19.2	18.4	24.4
	55–64	13.8	14.7	15.2
	65–74	11.9	9.1	9.1
	75+	9.0	10.3	5.9
Nationality	Swiss	80.3	73.4	68.2
	Foreigner	19.7	26.6	31.8
Marital status	Single	32.6	32.3	29.6
	Married	51.6	48.2	46.3
	Divorced/separated/widowed	15.8	19.5	24.1
Educational level	Low	14.7	21.0	27.7
	Middle	54.2	54.8	54.8
	High	31.2	24.2	17.4
BMI kg/m2	<18.5	3.4	4.0	5.3
	≥18.5 - < 25.0	56.3	54.9	50.4
	≥25.0 - < 30.0	30.7	30.6	29.8
	≥30	9.6	10.5	14.4
Smoking history	Never	51.2	45.4	39.6
	Former smoker	22.0	21.5	17.1
	Current smoker	26.8	33.1	43.4
Moderate physical activity	<150 min. per week	24.5	36.0	45.1
	≥150 min. per week	75.5	64.0	54.9
Alcohol consumptionc	Hazardous chronic consumption	4.7	6.0	4.2
	Lower consumption or none	95.3	94.0	95.8
Chronic diseasesd	No	73.1	69.2	67.3
	Yes	26.9	30.8	32.7
Pay attention to diet	Yes	68.7	68.6	71.4
	No	31.3	31.4	28.6
Milk and/or dairy products	<3 portions daily	90.3	91.8	90.0
	≥3 portions daily	9.7	8.2	10.0
Fish	Never/less than one day per week	34.9	34.1	35.1
	More	65.1	65.9	64.9
Meat	≥4 times weekly	39.1	34.1	33.2
	<4 times weekly	60.9	65.9	66.8

^aValues are self-reported and weighted except n

^bLow distress (MHI-5 > 72 & ≤ 100), moderate distress (MHI-5 > 52 and ≤ 72), and high distress (MHI-5 ≤ 52)

^c≤ 20 g ethanol daily for women, and ≤ 40 g ethanol daily for men

^dHypertension and diabetes