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Association between lifestyle factors and depressive symptoms among Chinese middle school students: a cross-sectional study
- Source :
- Psychology, Health & Medicine. 26:1266-1273
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2020.
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Abstract
- This study aimed to identify the independent contributions of lifestyle factors to depressive symptoms among Chinese middle school students, with a focus on gender differences. A cross-sectional study of 3081 middle school students was conducted in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China. Students were asked to complete a questionnaire including socio-demographics, lifestyle factors, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Chinese Secondary School Students Depression Scale. The total prevalence of depressive symptoms was 19.9%. Poor quality of sleep, smoking, drinking and longer mobile phone use time were related to increased prevalence of depressive symptoms after adjusting for potential confounders. A significant interaction between gender and quality of sleep on the depressive symptoms was found (
- Subjects :
- Male
China
Cross-sectional study
education
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Prevalence
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Students
Association (psychology)
Life Style
Applied Psychology
Depressive symptoms
Schools
Depression
business.industry
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Sleep Quality
Lifestyle factors
Female
business
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14653966 and 13548506
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychology, Health & Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4b0bf8ad139586ddef8f83c945a16998