Table 2.
Relationships between the level of physical activity and the prevalence of depression, chronic anxiety, and other mental disorders in the Spanish youth population aged 15–35 years in the ENSE 2017.
| Depression | ||||
| Physical activity level | Total= 4195 | Yes = 132 | No = 4063 | p |
| Inactives | 519 (12.4) | 25 (4.8) a | 494 (95.2) a | <0.001 |
| Walkers | 1511 (36.0) | 62 (4.1) a,b | 1449 (95.9) a,b | |
| Actives | 1311 (31.3) | 37 (2.8) b | 1274 (97.2) b | |
| Very actives | 854 (20.4) | 8 (0.9) c | 846 (99.1) c | |
| Chronic Anxiety | ||||
| Physical activity level | Total = 4195 | Yes = 196 | No = 3999 | p |
| Inactives | 519 (12.4) | 45 (8.7) a | 474 (91.3) a | <0.001 |
| Walkers | 1511 (36.0) | 83 (5.5) b | 1428 (94.5) b | |
| Actives | 1311 (31.3) | 55 (4.2) b | 1256 (95.8) b | |
| Very actives | 854 (20.4) | 13 (1.5) c | 841 (98.5) c | |
| Other Mental Disorders | ||||
| Physical activity level | Total= 4195 | Yes = 68 | No = 4127 | p |
| Inactives | 519 (12.4) | 20 (3.9) a | 499 (96.1) a | <0.001 |
| Walkers | 1511 (36.0) | 25 (1.7) b | 1486 (98.3) b | |
| Actives | 1311 (31.3) | 19 (1.4) b | 1292 (98.6) b | |
| Very actives | 854 (20.4) | 4 (0.5) c | 850 (99.5) c | |
Data presented in absolute and relative frequencies; IAF, Physical Activity Index; Inactives, IAF = 0, report not walking, at least 10 min at a time one or more days a week, in item p.117; Walkers, IAF = 0, report walking, at least more than 10 min at a time, one or more days a week; Actives, IAF between 1 and 30; Very actives, IAF greater than 30; a–c, different superscripts indicate significant differences between proportions in the same column with significance level less than 0.05 in Levene’s z-test; p, p-value chi-square test; Yes, report having experienced: depression (p.25.20A), chronic anxiety (p.25.21A), and other mental disorders (p.25.22A) in the ENSE 2017; No, negative answers to the previous items.