Depressive symptoms and clustering of risk behaviours among adolescents and young adults attending vocational education: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Demographics, risk behaviours and depressive symptoms of the study population (N = 584)

	Total
	N = 584
Age in years
Mean [2]	18.3 (SD = 2.59, range 15–30)
	%
Gender [ 1 ]	38.9
Boys
Ethnicity [ 4 ]
Dutch	27.9
Surinamese	10.3
Antillean	15.7
Moroccan	6.4
Turkish	9.0
Cape Verdean	5.0
Other	25.7
Being a parent [ 28 ]
Yes	10.6
Binge drinking (past 4 weeks) [ 16 ]
Never	49.5
1 time	18.7
2 times	13.4
3 - 4 times	8.6
5 or more times	9.9
Cannabis use (past 4 weeks) [ 8 ]
Never	85.8
1 – 4 times	4.5
5 or more times	9.7
Cigarette smoking (currently) [ 11 ]
No	62.3
Yes, but not daily	8.0
Yes, daily	29.7
Delinquency [ 6 ]
Questioned at a police station (last year)	11.1
Truancy (past two months) [73]
Never	17.8
1 – 2 hours	15.9
3 – 10 hours	30.5
>10 hours	35.8
Debts [ 46 ]
None	79.0
<500 euro	7.1
>500 euro	13.9
Depressive symptoms [ 16 ]
CES-D score in the clinical range (score ≥ 16)^a	29.2
CES-D score^b, mean (SD)	12.5 (9.49)

Note: [missing data].
^a A cut-off point of 16 is used to indicate clinically significant depressive symptoms and corresponds to the 80^th percentile in community samples [34].
^b A higher score on the CES-D indicates higher levels of depression symptoms (range 0–60).

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