Table 1. Description of the Healthy Minds Study sample of Middle Eastern/Arab American (MENA) college students and non-MENA white college students.
| MENA students N = 2,494 |
non-MENA white students N = 84,423 |
significant diff? | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics, N (weighted %) | |||
| Age (21 or younger) | 1153 (49.7) | 48819 (60.3) | * |
| Undergraduate | 1428 (64.5) | 57073 (70.6) | * |
| Gender | * | ||
| Male | 917 (45.5) | 26087 (40.3) | |
| Female | 1522 (52.1) | 56429 (56.8) | |
| Gender minority | 55 (2.4) | 1907 (2.8) | |
| Self-identified race/ethnicity (not exclusive) | |||
| White | 851 (32.6) | 84423 (100) | |
| Black | 92 (4.2) | 1338 (1.8) | |
| Hispanic | 142 (5.5) | 4520 (5.3) | |
| American Indian or American Native | 40 (1.8) | 1361 (1.8) | |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | 147 (6.1) | 2848 (3.1) | |
| Other | 69 (3.0) | 597 (0.8) | |
| Sexual orientation | * | ||
| Heterosexual | 2105 (83.9) | 70210 (82.0) | |
| Lesbian/Gay | 200 (7.9) | 7977 (10.2) | |
| Bisexual/Questioning/Other | 189 (8.1) | 6236 (7.9) | |
| First generation | 648 (28.4) | 22352 (30.0) | |
| Citizen | 1862 (75.3) | 82296 (97.7) | * |
| Religion (not exclusive) | * | ||
| Christian | 645 (22.6) | 51077 (54.8) | |
| Muslim | 1081 (43.7) | 279 (0.3) | |
| Atheist/Agnostic | 461 (15.6) | 22104 (23.4) | |
| Other | 484 (16.7) | 17457 (20.0) | |
| Missing | 207 (6.9) | 5204 (4.8) | |
| Mental Health Symptoms, N (weighted %) | |||
| Depression (PHQ-9> = 10) | 829 (36.0) | 24693 (31.5) | * |
| Anxiety (GAD-7> = 10) | 734 (31.9) | 22166 (27.5) | * |
| Modifiers, N (weighted %) | |||
| Experienced discrimination in the past 12 months | 261 (11.3) | 3655 (5.1) | * |
| Religiosity (important) | 652 (27.9) | 12820 (15.4) | * |
* Denotes a statistically significant difference between MENA and non-MENA white students at the p<0.05 level using a chi-squared statistic.