Table 4 The association between anxiety severity and sample characteristics (n = 1049)

Gender

Male

75 (18.6%)

140 (34.7%)

137 (34.0%)

51 (12.7%)

8.438

0.038

Female

104 (16.1%)

239 (37.0%)

185 (28.6%)

118 (18.3%)

Field of study

Human medicine

47 (13.7%)

116 (33.8%)

114 (33.2%)

66 (19.2%)

12.236

0.200

Health sciences

49 (20.9%)

89 (38.0%)

65 (27.8%)

31 (13.2%)

Scientific non-health majors

39 (19.5%)

69 (34.5%)

58 (29.0%)

34 (17.0%)

Literary majors

44 (16.2%)

105 (38.6%)

85 (31.3%)

38 (14.0%)

Study year

First year

47 (24.0%)

76 (38.8%)

52 (26.5%)

21 (10.7%)

30.928

0.009

Second year

48 (15.2%)

122 (38.7%)

95 (30.2%)

50 (15.9%)

Third year

40 (18.7%)

68 (31.8%)

59 (27.6%)

47 (22.0%)

Fourth year

23 (12.0%)

73 (38.2%)

65 (34.0%)

30 (15.7%)

Fifth year

19 (16.0%)

37 (31.1%)

47 (39.5%)

16 (13.4%)

Sixth year

2 (14.3%)

3 (21.4%)

4 (28.6%)

5 (35.7%)

Sleeping duration/day

Less than 6 h

38 (14.3%)

97 (36.5%)

70 (26.3%)

61 (22.9%)

19.968

0.003

6 to 8 h

121 (18.8%)

239 (37.2%)

200 (31.1%)

83 (12.9%)

More than 8 h

20 (14.3%)

43 (30.7%)

52 (37.1%)

25 (17.9%)

Smoking

No

129 (17.3%)

285 (38.3%)

205 (27.6%)

125 (16.8%)

12.457

0.006

Yes

50 (16.4%)

94 (30.8%)

117 (38.4%)

44 (14.4%)

Source of food

Homemade food

64 (20.8%)

106 (34.5%)

97 (31.6%)

40 (13.0%)

17.083

0.009

Restaurants

29 (15.2%)

60 (31.4%)

75 (39.3%)

27 (14.1%)

Homemade food and restaurants

86 (15.6%)

213 (38.7%)

150 (27.2%)

102 (18.5%)

Place of residence

Village

65 (12.7%)

197 (38.6%)

170 (33.3%)

79 (15.5%)

18.521

0.005

City

101 (21.4%)

157 (33.2%)

131 (27.7%)

84 (17.8%)

Camp

13 (20.0%)

25 (38.5%)

21 (32.3%)

6 (9.2%)