Table 2.

Association between gender and level of depressive symptoms among students by school

School	Gender	Minimal %	Mild %	Moderate %	Severe %	Mean score	Total morbidity %	*P value
Medicine	Male	60.8	21.2	10.4	7.7	12.6	39.3	0.001
	Female	43.4	24.0	20.0	12.6	17.0	56.6
Dentistry	Male	59.8	17.1	18.8	4.3	11.6	40.2	0.000
	Female	29.0	24.6	27.5	18.8	19.5	70.9
AMS	Male	57.0	22.1	15.3	5.5	13.4	42.9	0.618
	Female	51.1	25.3	16.4	7.1	14.4	48.8
Nursing	Male	76.4	7.3	12.7	3.6	9.1	23.6	0.000
	Female	32.7	28.6	24.5	14.3	18.1	67.4
Total	Male	60.6	19.6	13.8	6.0	12.4	39.4	0.000
	Female	43.8	25.1	19.9	11.2	16.2	56.1
Total	Both	53.2	22.0	16.5	8.3	14.1	46.7

*Less than 20 % of the cells had expected value less than 5