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. 2016 Aug 4;8(8):479. doi: 10.3390/nu8080479

Table 2.

A descriptive table showing the means, standard deviations, medians, and interquartile ranges for all variables for good and poor sleepers as indicated from the PSQI. The table also shows p values comparing good and poor sleepers using either independent samples t-test. Mann Whitney U test and chi square tests. Participants with good sleep quality had PSQI global scores of less than 5 and participants with poor sleep quality had PSQI global scores of greater than 5.

Good Sleep Quality
n = 35
Poor Sleep Quality
n = 45
p Values
Mean (SD) Median (IQR) Mean (SD) Median (IQR)
Total caffeine (mg) 130.0 (62.6) 123.2 (58.2) 192.1 (122.5) 140.4 (160.6) 0.008 I
Coffee (mg) 81.7 (68.5) 66.5 (83.1) 132.2 (115.0) 99.2 (83.3) 0.019 M
Tea (mg) 35.4 (48.4) 13.6 (54.3) 39.5 (61.5) 13.6 (55.0) 0.874 M
Chocolate (mg) 3.6 (4.0) 1.7 (4.5) 3.5 (4.9) 1.7 (4.5) 0.658 M
Soft Drink (mg) 6.5 (13.2) 0.0 (5.2) 10.9 (29.2) 0.0 (10.4) 0.368 M
Energy drink (mg) 2.9 (15.4) 0.0 (0.0) 6.0 (23.0) 0.0 (0.0) 0.395 M
SOL (min) 11.4 (7.6) 10.0 (13.0) 24.3 (11.0) 30.0 (15.0) 0.000 C
SE (%) 95.0 (4.6) 94.1 (8.6) 82.9 (8.8) 82.4 (11.1) 0.239 M
TIB (h) 7.9 (0.7) 8.0 (1.3) 8.2 (1.2) 8.0 (1.1) 0.000 C

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; PSQI, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; IQR, interquartile range; mg, milligrams; SOL, sleep onset latency; SE, sleep efficiency; TIB, time in bed; global score, PSQI total score; %, percentage; I, Independent samples t-test was used; M, Mann-Whitney U test was used; C, Chi-square test was used. Notes: Chocolate includes both food and drink.