Health-promoting lifestyle and its predictors among health-related and non-health-related university students in Taiwan: a cross-sectional quantitative study

Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of university students by major

Variables	Health-related majors (n = 458)		Non-health-related majors (n = 604)		p-value^a
Variables	N	%	N	%	p-value^a
Gender					<0.001^***
Male	147	32.1	298	49.3
Female	311	67.9	306	50.7
Grade					0.473
Lower-division	266	58.1	364	60.3
Upper-division	192	41.9	240	39.7
Residential status					0.023^*
With relatives	167	36.5	217	35.9
On-Campus	127	27.7	210	34.8
Off-campus	164	35.8	177	29.3
Monthly disposable income					0.067
≤ 10,000 TWD	255	55.7	346	57.3
10,001–15,000 TWD	103	22.5	158	26.2
≥ 15,001 TWD	100	21.8	100	16.6

TWD New Taiwan Dollar, ^a Differences based on chi-squared test, ^*** p < 0.001, ^* p < 0.05

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