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Appendix 1: Healthy Students Healthy Lives

The document summarizes data from a study on student health and lifestyles. It finds that more female students report being quite healthy compared to male students. It also finds that headaches, feeling tired and exhausted, and nervousness are symptoms reported at least weekly by many students. Finally, it reports that certain illnesses like allergies, anxiety disorders, and back pain are more commonly reported by female students and students in their first year of study.

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Appendix 1: Healthy Students Healthy Lives

The document summarizes data from a study on student health and lifestyles. It finds that more female students report being quite healthy compared to male students. It also finds that headaches, feeling tired and exhausted, and nervousness are symptoms reported at least weekly by many students. Finally, it reports that certain illnesses like allergies, anxiety disorders, and back pain are more commonly reported by female students and students in their first year of study.

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Healthy Students Healthy Lives

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Physical Health and Lifestyle

Students’ perception of their health by gender


How healthy do you think you are?
Gender Very healthy Quite healthy Unhealthy
Male 36 102 16
Female 33 270 32
χ = 16.9, v = 2, p < 0.0005
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Frequency of psychosomatic symptoms


How often do you have these symptoms
Psychosomatic At least every About every
Symptoms week month Rarely/Never
Headache 239 119 128
Stomach-ache 78 120 284
Back-ache 139 126 219
Neck and shoulder pain 146 99 241
Feeling low and down 221 131 131
Feeling nervous 303 108 71
Tired and exhausted 377 63 47
Sleep problems 130 48 308
Feeling dizzy 123 69 293
χ = 876.6, v = 16, p < 0.0005
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Frequency of medication taken for symptoms


Psychosomatic How often have you taken medicine or tablets?
Symptoms No Occasionally Frequently
Headache 228 163 99
Stomach-ache 421 49 16
Sleeping Difficulties 458 16 7
Nervousness 449 20 14
χ 2 = 484.6, v = 6, p < 0.0005

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Frequency of illnesses by gender
Gender
Illnesses Male Female
Allergy problems 25 68
Anxiety disorder 17 64
Asthma 6 25
Chronic fatigue syndrome 5 14
Depression 20 28
Diabetes 1 0
Sexually transmitted diseases 3 4
Substance abuse problem 5 5
Back pain 46 156
Broken bone/fracture 7 5
Bronchitis/ear or sinus infection 23 81
Endometriosis 0 6
χ = 25.49, v = 11, p = 0.008
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Frequency of illnesses by course year


Course Year
Illnesses 1st year 2nd year 3rd-5th year
Allergy problems 23 55 15
Anxiety disorder 22 42 17
Asthma 9 17 5
Chronic fatigue syndrome 6 4 9
Depression 19 24 5
Diabetes 0 1 0
Sexually transmitted diseases 2 4 1
Substance abuse problem 2 8 0
Back pain 68 109 25
Broken bone/fracture 5 6 1
Bronchitis/ear or sinus infection 38 50 16
Endometriosis 2 3 1
χ = 30.19, v = 22, p = 0.114
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