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Table 1 Characterization of Brazilian adolescents with Common Mental Disorders from the Study of Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescents (ERICA), (n = 71,553)

From: Dietary patterns, breakfast consumption, meals with family and associations with common mental disorders in adolescents: a school-based cross-sectional study

 

Common Mental Disorders

 

Variable

Global

(%)

No

(%)

Yes (%)

p -valueª

Sex

  Female

49.79

46.05

67.92

 < 0.001

  Male

50.21

53.95

32.08

Age (Years old)

    

  12–13A

35.10

36.49

28.39

 < 0.001

  14–15B

34.99

34.77

36.06

  16–17C

29.90

28.74

35.55

Pattern of Socioeconomic Indicatorsb

  Tercile 1

46.26

46.08

47.11

0.28

  Tercile 2

35.04

35.32

33.68

  Tercile 3

18.70

18.60

19.21

Type of school

  Public

83.61

83.70

83.19

0.40

  Private

16.39

16.30

16.81

Physical activity level

  Inactive (0 min/week)A

16.72

15.59

22.20

 < 0.001

  Insufficiently active 1 (< 150 min/week)B

14.19

14.21

14.13

  Insufficiently active 1 (< 300 min/week)B

14.05

14.50

11.88

  Active (≥ 300 min/week)B

55.04

55.71

51.79

Screen time (hours/day)

  > 3 h a day

58.15

59.41

51.97

 < 0.001

  ≤ 3 h a day

41.85

40.59

48.03

Live with parents

  Both parentsA

57.27

58.48

51.39

 < 0.001

  Only with mother or only with fatherB

36.85

36.08

40.61

  Neither parentC

5.88

05.44

7.99

Breakfast consumption

  Does not consumeA

21.82

19.74

31.91

 

  SometimesB

29.76

29.39

31.54

 < 0.001

  Almost every day/every dayC

48.42

50.87

36.55

 

Practice of having the meals with family

  Never or almost neverA

8.67

7.33

15.37

 < 0.001

  SometimesB

23.13

22.31

27.34

  Almost every day/every dayC

68.21

70.36

57.39

  1. ª Chi-square test; bold: statistically significant; Equal letters mean similarity between the proportions of the groups, and different letters mean difference between the proportions of the groups
  2. b The pattern of socioeconomic indicators was characterized by a higher number of employees at home, a lower number of residents per room, a higher number of bathrooms at home and a higher number of refrigerators at home (Supplementary Material)