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. 2023 Feb 18;13(2):501–511. doi: 10.3390/ejihpe13020038

Table 3.

Students’ sleep, depression, cognitive measures, and post-hoc pairwise comparisons per academic year.

Measure 1 1 1 vs. 2 3 1 vs. 3 3 1 vs. 4 3 2 1 2 vs. 3 3 2 vs. 4 3 3 1 3 vs. 4 3 4 1 H p
Daytime sleepiness 6.75 (4.49) 2570.00 (0.03) 2584.00 * (0.21) 2194.00 * (0.22) 6.85 (4.12) 3666.50 * (0.02) 3150.50 * (0.20) 8.47 (3.78) 5240.00 (0.02) 8.70 (4.52) 10.00 0.019
Sleep quality 2 3.51 (2.48) 2289.00 (0.14) 2363.50 ** (0.28) 1977.50 ** (0.32) 4.05 (2.20) 3653.00 (0.16) 3076.00 * (0.19) 4.94 (2.59) 5145.50 (0.06) 6.89 (11.70) 14.65 0.002
Dysthymia-state 25.60 (30.61) -- -- -- 22.82 (27.93) -- -- 30.21 (31.88) -- 32.68 (33.98) 3.23 0.357
Euthymia-state 86.40 (18.66) 3066.00 (0.12) 4193.00 * (0.22) 2618.00 ** (0.25) 79.47 (23.63) 4881.50 (0.08) 3146.50 (0.11) 80.08 (20.69) 3645.50 (0.06) 74.47 (25.87) 8.08 0.045
State total score 74.29 (20.47) -- -- -- 69.05 (21.06) -- -- 70.81 (16.88) -- 70.26 (15.51) 3.83 0.280
Dysthymia-trait 19.08 (29.47) -- -- -- 19.41 (24.97) -- -- 24.59 (28.48) -- 22.67 (29.05) 3.66 0.300
Euthymia-trait 79.92 (23.57) -- -- -- 74.51 (24.60) -- -- 76.74 (26.96) -- 74.12 (25.62) 4.80 0.187
Trait total score 65.54 (24.20) -- -- -- 60.56 (18.45) -- -- 64.08 (21.66) -- 62.59 (19.16) 3.52 0.318
Inductive reasoning 40.8 (32.96) -- -- -- 36.85 (25.63) -- -- 36.88 (22.33) -- 37.47 (26.29) 0.14 0.986
Reading comprehension 41.67 (25.47) -- -- -- 34.95 (25.86) -- -- 35.37 (20.81) -- 34.11 (26.46) 3.25 0.355
Problem-solving 35.05 (26.74) 2984.00 (0.00) 2055.00 * (0,30) 2429.00 (0.07) 33.71 (19.86) 2896.00 *** (0.39) 2758.50 (0.07) 51.49 (21.7) 2438.00 *** (0.39) 32.52 (26.1) 28.24 <0.001
Number and calculation 32.49 (25.39) 2317.50 (0.01) 2044.50 *** (0.34) 1887.00 * (0.23) 33.88 (25.54) 3123.00 *** (0.31) 2897.50 (0.18) 50.47 (26.02) 3081.00 (0.12) 43.71 (25.15) 19.80 <0.001

1 Mean (SD). 2 Higher score means lower sleep quality. 3 Wilcoxon rank-sum (effect size r). Abbreviations: 1 = 1st year; 2 = 2nd year; 3 = 3rd year; 4 = 4th year. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001.