TABLE 1.
Socio‐demographic information of participants
| Total | Erbil | Sulaimani | Duhok | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | (%) | Count | (%) | Count | (%) | Count | (%) | |
| Gender a | ||||||||
| Male | 927 | (43.4) | 701 | (32.8) | 182 | (8.5) | 44 | (2.0) |
| Female | 1,210 | (56.6) | 899 | (42.0) | 294 | (13.8) | 17 | (0.8) |
| Age a | ||||||||
| <18 | 1,422 | (66.5) | 1,072 | (50.2) | 308 | (14.4) | 42 | (2.0) |
| 18–30 | 616 | (28.8) | 460 | (21.5) | 140 | (6.6) | 16 | (0.7) |
| 31–50 | 52 | (2.4) | 33 | (1.5) | 18 | (0.8) | 1 | (0.0) |
| >50 | 47 | (2.2) | 35 | (1.6) | 10 | (0.5) | 2 | (0.1) |
| BMI a | ||||||||
| Underweight | 93 | (4.4) | 68 | (3.2) | 22 | (1.0) | 3 | (0.1) |
| Normal | 1,088 | (50.9) | 819 | (38.3) | 235 | (11.0) | 34 | (1.6) |
| Overweight | 724 | (33.9) | 532 | (24.9) | 173 | (8.1) | 19 | (0.9) |
| Obese | 232 | 10.9) | 181 | (8.5) | 46 | (2.2) | 5 | (0.2) |
| Residency a | ||||||||
| Urban | 1,569 | (73.4) | 1,241 | (39.7) | 312 | (9.9) | 16 | (0.5) |
| Rural | 568 | (26.6) | 359 | (11.5) | 164 | (5.2) | 45 | (1.4) |
| Jobs a statement | ||||||||
| Unemployed | 518 | (24.2) | 365 | (17.1) | 141 | (6.6) | 12 | (0.5) |
| Retired | 17 | (0.8) | 11 | (0.5) | 6 | (0.3) | 0 | (0.0) |
| Student | 679 | (31.8) | 504 | (23.6) | 145 | (6.7) | 30 | (1.4) |
| Working at home | 136 | (6.4) | 95 | (4.4) | 37 | (1.7) | 4 | (0.1) |
| Employed | 592 | (27.7) | 471 | (22.0) | 108 | (5.0) | 13 | (0.6) |
| Job terminated | 195 | (9.1) | 154 | (17.1) | 39 | (6.6) | 2 | (0.5) |
a
The Shapiro–Wilk and Kurtosis test was employed to assess the normal distribution of data. None of the group data was normally distributed.