Table 3 The association between depression severity and sample characteristics (n = 1049)

Gender

Male

32 (7.9%)

29 (7.2%)

101 (25.1%)

241 (59.8%)

6.946

0.074

Female

52 (8.0%)

74 (11.5%)

176 (27.2%)

344 (53.3%)

Field of study

Human medicine

27 (7.9%)

29 (8.5%)

80 (23.3%)

207 (60.3%)

19.973

0.018

Health sciences

28 (12.0%)

33 (14.1%)

63 (26.9%)

110 (47.0%)

Scientific non-health majors

13 (6.5%)

14 (7.0%)

58 (29.0%)

115 (57.5%)

Literary majors

16 (5.9%)

27 (9.9%)

76 (27.9%)

153 (56.3%)

Study year

First year

29 (14.8%)

33 (16.8%)

51 (26.0%)

83 (42.3%)

55.604

0.000

Second year

21 (6.7%)

30 (9.5%)

95 (30.2%)

169 (53.7%)

Third year

12 (5.6%)

21 (9.8%)

52 (24.3%)

129 (60.3%)

Fourth year

15 (7.9%)

19 (9.9%)

39 (20.4%)

118 (61.8%)

Fifth year

6 (5.0%)

0 (0.0%)

38 (32.0%)

75 (63.0%)

Sixth year

1 (7.2%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (14.3%)

11 (78.6%)

Sleeping duration/day

Less than 6 h

16 (6.0%)

24 (9.0%)

58 (21.8%)

168 (63.2%)

26.747

0.000

6 to 8 h

59 (9.2%)

68 (10.6%)

196 (30.5%)

320 (49.8%)

More than 8 h

9 (6.4%)

11 (7.9%)

23 (16.4%)

97 (69.3%)

Smoking

No

70 (9.4%)

91 (12.2%)

200 (26.9%)

383 (51.5%)

30.097

0.000

Yes

14 (4.6%)

12 (3.9%)

77 (25.2%)

202 (66.2%)

Source of food

Homemade food

28 (9.1%)

35 (11.4%)

80 (26.1%)

164 (53.4%)

45.29

0.000

Restaurants

3 (1.6%)

2 (1.0%)

45 (23.6%)

141 (73.8%)

Homemade food and restaurants

53 (9.6%)

66 (12.0%)

152 (27.6%)

280 (50.8%)

Place of residence

Village

35 (6.8%)

53 (10.4%)

121 (23.7%)

302 (59.1%)

8.997

0.174

City

45 (9.5%)

46 (9.7%)

134 (28.3%)

248 (52.4%)

Camp

4 (6.2%)

4 (6.2%)

22 (33.8%)

35 (53.8%)