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Table 1 Characteristics of the sample

From: Mental health indicators and their lifestyle associations in German students: a gender-specific multivariable analysis

Variables

M

Me

SD

Mn

Mx

Ms

Age in years

25.3

24.9 (IQR = 4.0)

4.53

18.0

54.0

20

Body Mass Index

22.95

22.58 (IQR = 3.39)

3.25

12.35

51.9

18

Smoking (number of cigarettes per day)

1.77

0.0 (IQR = 0)

4.83

0.00

60.0

64

Physical activity (hours of sport per week)

3.91

3.00 (IQR = 5.0)

3.80

0.00

40.0

177

Nutritional behavior (0 = ”unhealthy”; 4 = ”healthy”)

2.56

3.00 (IQR = 0.75)

0.74

1.00

4.00

13

Alcohol consumption (in gram)

24.64

25.00 (IQR = 20.0)

18.55

0.00

180.0

52

Drug consumption (12 = no consumption; 72 = daily consumption of all listed drugs)

13.63

12.00 (IQR = 2.0)

3.77

12.0

72.0

66

Mental HRQOL (-1.266 = lowest mental HRQOL; 80.739 = highest mental HRQOL)

46.67

49.90 (IQR 12.25)

10.43

6.00

67.51

28

Depression (0 = not depressed; 37 = very depressed)

12.56

11.0 (IQR = 8)

6.20

0.00

37.00

41

Anxiety (4 = strong, 3 = moderate, 2 = hardly, 1 = not at all)

1.39

1.00 (IQR = 1)

0.72

1.00

4.00

11

  1. M Arithmetic mean, Me Median, SD Standard deviation, Mn Minimum, Mx Maximum, Ms Missing values