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Table 1 Sociodemographic description of study participants

From: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, mental health and coping behavior in German University students – a longitudinal study before and after the onset of the pandemic

 

2019a

2020a

Longitudinal 2019/2020b

n

%

n

%

n

%

Sex

 Male

325

24.4

413

24.2

175

20.9

 Female

1000

75.2

1286

75.2

659

78.7

 Divers

5

0.4

10

0.6

3

0.4

Age M (SD)

1331

23.5 (3.4)

1709

23.8 (3.5)

24.1 (3.3)

Study group

 MEDc

595

43,4

745

41.1

397

45.5

 STEM

653

47.6

913

50.4

417

47.8

 HSC

123

9.0

153

8.4

58

6.7

  1. across-sectional analysis for 2019 and 2020
  2. blongitudinal analysis (all participants who responded in 2019 and 2020)
  3. cHSC: health sciences; MED: medicine; STEM: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics