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Table 1 Demographic and other characteristics of undergraduates who responded to helping intentions question and those whose responses were scored using the ALGEE scoring system

From: Helping intentions of undergraduates towards their depressed peers: a cross-sectional study in Sri Lanka

Variables

Undergraduates who responded to helping intentions question

Those whose responses were scored using ALGEE system

(n = 4442)

(n = 1811)

n

%

n

%

Gender

 Male

1338

30.1

667

36.8

 Female

3100

69.8

1142

63.1

Faculty

 Medicine

566

12.7

522

28.8

 Arts and Education1

1159

26.1

50

2.8

 Law

607

13.7

114

6.3

 Management and Finance

980

22.1

460

25.4

 Science

631

14.2

411

22.7

 School of Computing

498

11.2

254

14.0

Year of study

 1st year

1842

41.5

524

28.9

 2nd year

1181

26.6

504

27.8

 3rd year

796

17.9

333

18.4

 4th year

515

11.6

344

19.0

 5th year (Medicine)2

108

2.4

106

5.9

Age group

 18–20 years

485

10.9

155

8.6

 21–23 years

3189

71.9

1180

65.2

 24 years and above

763

17.2

476

26.3

Religion

 Buddhist

3870

87.1

1425

78.7

 Hindu

145

3.3

118

6.5

 Islamic

146

3.3

79

4.4

 Roman Catholic

205

4.6

135

7.5

 Other

70

1.6

49

2.7

Residence when going to University

 Home

1662

37.4

973

53.7

 Hostel

1338

30.1

335

18.5

 Rented place

1126

25.3

390

21.5

 Home of friend or relative

262

5.9

81

4.5

 Other

50

1.1

30

1.7

Exposure to problem through family/ friends

 No

1684

37.9

632

34.9

 Yes

1646

37.1

743

41.0

 Don’t know

983

22.1

382

21.1

Personal experience of problem

    

 No

2395

53.9

968

53.5

 Yes

1461

32.9

581

32.1

 Don’t know

305

6.9

170

9.4

Screening positive for Major Depression3

(n = 4107)

(n = 1671)

 No

3731

90.8

1555

93.1

 Yes

376

9.2

116

6.9

  1. Notes.
  2. 1 Only 5.6% of the total sample and 2% of those whose responses were scored using the ALGEE scoring system were from the Faculty of Education
  3. 2 Only the Faculty of Medicine has a 5th year of study
  4. 3 Only responses which had ≤ 1 missing response on the PHQ-9 were considered valid for this variable