Table 1.
Personal and life-style characteristics of the participants overall and per sleep quality group.
| Characteristics | Overall N = 240 |
Poor quality N = 163 |
Good quality N = 77 |
χ 2 | p value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (mean years (SD)) | 23.3 (1.7) | 23.3 (1.6) | 23.2 (1.9) | 0.249§ | 0.618 |
| Sex | 12.252 | ≤0.01∗ | |||
| Female | 142 (59%) | 84 (59.2%) | 58 (40.8%) | ||
| Male | 98 (41%) | 79 (80.6%) | 19 (19.4%) | ||
| Level of education | 0.039 | 0.89 | |||
| Third | 130 (54%) | 89 (68.5%) | 41 (31.5%) | ||
| Sixth | 110 (45%) | 74 (67.3%) | 36 (32.7%) | ||
| Marital status | 8.043 | 0.018∗ | |||
| Single | 199 (83%) | 128 (64.3%) | 71 (35.7%) | ||
| Married | 32 (13%) | 26 (81.3%) | 6 (18.8%) | ||
| Other | 9 (4%) | 9 (100%) | 0 (0%) | ||
| Place of residence | 1.008 | 0.799 | |||
| With the family | 174 (72.5%) | 115 (66.1%) | 59 (33.9%) | ||
| In campus | 34 (14%) | 25 (73.5%) | 9 (26.5%) | ||
| Rented place | 28 (12%) | 20 (71.4%) | 8 (28.6%) | ||
| Other | 4 (1.5%) | 3 (75%) | 1 (25%) | ||
| Health status | 4.031 | 0.133 | |||
| Good | 143 (59.8%) | 90 (62.9%) | 53 (37.1%) | ||
| Ok | 90 (37.7%) | 68 (75.6%) | 22 (24.4%) | ||
| Poor | 6 (2.5%) | 4 (66.7%) | 2 (33.3%) | ||
| Financial status | 6.782 | 0.034∗ | |||
| High | 89 (37%) | 52 (58.4%) | 37 (41.6%) | ||
| Middle | 138 (57.5%) | 103 (74.6%) | 35 (25.4%) | ||
| Low | 13 (5.5%) | 8 (61.5%) | 5 (38.5%) | ||
| Working while a student | 0.503 | 0.778 | |||
| No | 152 (63%) | 103 (67.8%) | 49 (32.2%) | ||
| Irregular | 67 (28%) | 47 (70.1%) | 20 (29.9%) | ||
| Regular | 21 (9%) | 13 (61.9%) | 8 (38.1%) | ||
| Chewing khat (N: 361) | 11.902 | 0.003∗ | |||
| No | 151 (62.9%) | 96 (63.6%) | 55 (36.4%) | ||
| Occasional | 43 (17.9%) | 26 (60.5%) | 17 (39.5%) | ||
| Regular | 46 (19.2%) | 41 (89.1%) | 5 (10.9%) | ||
| Smoking | 2.666 | 0.264 | |||
| No | 206 (85.8%) | 144 (69.9%) | 62 (30.1%) | ||
| Occasional | 32 (13.3%) | 18 (56.3%) | 14 (43.8%) | ||
| Regular | 2 (0.8%) | 1 (50%) | 1 (50%) | ||
| Physical exercise (N: 360) | 1.622 | 0.444 | |||
| No | 85 (35.4%) | 54 (63.5%) | 31 (36.5%) | ||
| Irregular | 145 (60.4%) | 101 (69.7%) | 44 (30.3%) | ||
| Regular | 10 (4.2%) | 8 (80%) | 2 (20%) | ||
| Meal intake (N: 361) | 3.413 | 0.065 | |||
| Regular | 101 (42%) | 62 (61.4%) | 39 (38.6%) | ||
| Irregular | 139 (58%) | 101 (72.7%) | 38 (27.3%) |
§ t value, ∗statistically significant, p ≤ 0.05.