Table 3 Relationship between NEQ and participants’ socio-demographics and lifestyle
From: Relationship between night eating syndrome and sleep quality among university students in Palestine
Variable | NEQ | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes (%) | No (%) | |||
Gender | Male | 76.1 | 23.9 | 0.119 |
Female | 84.2 | 15.8 | ||
Marital Status | Single | 81.7 | 18.3 | 0.323 |
Married | 92.9 | 7.1 | ||
Other | 80 | 20 | ||
Area of Living | City | 83.2 | 16.8 | 0.753 |
Villages and camps | 81.9 | 18.1 | ||
Type of housing | With parents | 82.3 | 17.7 | 0.267 |
With relatives | 75 | 25 | ||
Student housing | 83.3 | 16.7 | ||
With spouse | 92.6 | 7.4 | ||
Other | 57.1 | 42.9 | ||
Faculty | Agricultural & veterinary Medicine | 81.7 | 18.3 | 0.866 |
Arts | 86.7 | 13.3 | ||
Economy & social sciences | 85.3 | 14.7 | ||
Education | 80 | 20 | ||
Engineering & IT | 73.7 | 26.3 | ||
Graduate studies | 78.6 | 21.4 | ||
Human sciences | 94.1 | 5.9 | ||
Law | 83.3 | 16.7 | ||
Medicine & health sciences | 81.7 | 18.3 | ||
Physical education | 66.7 | 33.3 | ||
Religion | 100 | 0 | ||
Applied sciences | 84.6 | 15.4 | ||
Other | 94.1 | 5.9 | ||
Academic year | 1st | 82 | 18 | 0.115 |
2nd | 78.9 | 21.1 | ||
3rd | 83.1 | 16.9 | ||
4th | 77.4 | 22.6 | ||
Other | 94.4 | 5.6 | ||
Family income | < 1500 NIS | 84 | 16 | 0.361 |
1500–3000 NIS | 83.3 | 16.7 | ||
3000–5000 NIS | 86.9 | 13.1 | ||
More than 5000 NIS | 77.6 | 22.4 | ||
Study Funding | Family | 83 | 17 | 0.970 |
Scholarship | 80 | 20 | ||
Personal income | 80 | 20 | ||
Other | 81.3 | 18.8 | ||
Chronic disease | Yes | 100 | 0 | 0.091 |
No | 81.9 | 18.1 | ||
Surgery | Yes | 83.3 | 82.4 | 0.857 |
No | 16.7 | 17.6 | ||
Medication | Yes | 91.7 | 8.3 | 0.223 |
No | 81.9 | 18.1 | ||
Smoking | Non-smoker | 78.3 | 21.7 | 0.474 |
Irregular smoker | 88.6 | 11.4 | ||
Regular smoker | 82 | 18 | ||
Reported type of smoking | Cigarette | 75 | 25 | 0.163 |
Pipe (shisha) | 88.9 | 11.1 | ||
Diet | Yes | 85.3 | 14.7 | 0.254 |
No | 80.5 | 19.5 | ||
Reason of diet | Weight loss/gain | 86.2 | 13.8 | 0.150 |
Therapeutic diet | 100 | 0 | ||
Other | 66.7 | 33.3 | ||
Losing/gaining weight | Yes | 85.7 | 14.3 | 0.209 |
No | 95.5 | 4.5 | ||
Diet satisfaction | Yes | 83 | 17 | 0.089 |
No | 94.4 | 5.6 | ||
Diet for other reason satisfaction | Yes | 83.3 | 16.7 | 0.072 |
No | 100 | 0 | ||
Working out | Yes | 84.6 | 15.4 | 0.468 |
No | 81.4 | 18.6 | ||
Walk | Yes | 82.4 | 17.6 | 0.920 |
No | 82.8 | 17.2 | ||
BMI | Underweight | 80.6 | 19.4 | 0.924 |
Normal | 81.8 | 18.2 | ||
Overweight | 84.2 | 15.8 | ||
Obese | 84.4 | 15.6 | ||