Towards a health promoting university: descriptive findings on health, wellbeing and academic performance amongst university students in Australia

Table 3 General Health and Wellbeing all students (N = 14,880) and by Local (N = 9,398) and International students (N = 5,482)

	Total			Local			International
	n	%	Wt %	n	%	Wt %	n	%	Wt %
In general, would you say your health is…
Excellent	1640	12.6	13.1	1206	14.5	15.1	434	9.3	9.7
Very Good	4290	33.0	33.2	2804	33.7	33.9	1486	31.7	31.9
Good	4456	34.3	34.0	2548	30.7	30.4	1908	40.7	40.3
Fair	2122	16.3	16.1	1372	16.5	16.2	750	16.0	15.8
Poor	496	3.8	3.7	383	4.6	4.5	113	2.4	2.3
Physical activity at least 30 min
0–2 days/week	5601	43.1	42.5	3223	38.8	38.2	2378	50.7	49.8
3–4 days/week	4383	33.7	33.8	2951	35.5	35.5	1432	30.5	31.0
5 or more days/week	3020	23.2	23.7	2139	25.7	26.3	881	18.8	19.2
Serves of fruit/day
0–1 serves	6470	51.3	51.7	3935	48.1	48.4	2535	57.2	57.6
2 or more serves	6135	48.7	48.3	4242	51.9	51.6	1893	42.8	42.4
Serves of vegetables/day
0–2 serves	6370	51.4	51.8	3545	43.7	44.1	2825	66.0	66.0
3–4 serves	4675	37.7	37.4	3502	43.1	42.8	1173	27.4	27.4
5 or more serves	1354	10.9	10.8	1069	13.2	13.1	285	6.7	6.6
Body Mass Index [75]
Underweight (under 18.5)	1186	9.2	8.7	588	7.1	6.8	598	12.8	11.9
Healthy weight (18.5 to 24.9)	8898	68.8	68.6	5729	69.3	69.2	3169	67.8	67.5
Overweight (25.0 to 29.9)	2129	16.5	17.1	1426	17.3	17.7	703	15.1	16.2
Obese (over 30)	722	5.6	5.6	521	6.3	6.3	201	4.3	4.5
Average hours of sleep/night
5 h or less	817	6.3	6.2	484	5.8	5.8	333	7.1	7.0
6 h	2688	20.7	20.7	1678	20.2	20.2	1010	21.5	21.4
7 h	5048	38.8	39.0	3286	39.5	39.7	1762	37.6	37.8
8 h	3569	27.4	27.4	2287	27.5	27.5	1282	27.3	27.3
9 h or more	882	6.8	6.7	578	7.0	6.9	304	6.5	6.4

ISSN: 1471-2458