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Table 1 Demographic and other characteristics of the undergraduates (n = 4671) and mental health experts (n = 37)

From: Depression literacy of undergraduates in a non-western developing context: the case of Sri Lanka

Variables

n

%

Undergraduates

 Gender

  Male

1447

31.0

  Female

3220

68.9

 Faculty

  Medicine

620

13.3

  Arts and Educationa

1198

25.6

  Law

616

13.2

  Management and finance

1025

21.9

  Science

687

14.7

  School of computing

524

11.2

 Year of study

  1st year

1946

41.7

  2nd year

1243

26.6

  3rd year

838

17.9

  4th year

530

11.3

  5th year (Medicine)

114

2.4

 Age group (Mean = 22.17; SD = 1.46)

  18–20 years

515

11.0

  21–23 years

3355

71.8

  24 and above

793

17.0

 Ethnicity

  Sinhala

4281

91.7

  Tamil

193

4.1

  Sri Lankan moor

147

3.1

  Other

46

1.0

 Religion

  Buddhist

4064

87.0

  Hindu

161

3.4

  Islamic

152

3.3

  Roman catholic

215

4.6

  Other

73

1.6

 Residence when going to University

  Home

1752

37.5

  Hostel

1403

30.0

  Rented place

1188

25.4

  Home of friend or relative

272

5.8

  Other

51

1.1

 Screening positive for major depression (n = 4304)

  No

3903

90.7

  Yes

401

9.3

 Mental health experts

  Gender

  

  Male

9

62.2

  Female

23

24.3

 Age group

  Below 30 years

2

5.4

  30–39 years

10

27.0

  40–49 years

13

35.1

  50–59 years

4

10.8

  Above 60 years

4

10.8

  1. aThose in the Faculty of Education were 5.6 % of this group