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Table 3 Lifestyle habits of the survey participants (N = 496)

From: General somatic health and lifestyle habits in individuals with obsessive- compulsive disorder: an international survey

Variable

n (%)

Physical activity

 

 IPAQ-SF, MET minutes/week, Mean (SD)

827.7 (994.3)

 Low physical activity

271 (55.0)

 Moderate physical activity

143 (29.0)

 High physical activity

79 (16.0)

Sedentary time

 

 3 h or less per day

57 (11.5)

 4–7 h per day

211 (42.5)

 8 h or more per day

194 (39.1)

 Don’t know/Not sure

34 (6.9)

Diet

 

Dietary index score, Mean (SD)

5.7 (2.4)

 Healthy diet

60 (12.1)

 Relatively healthy diet

254 (51.2)

 Unhealthy diet

182 (36.7)

Breakfast habits

 

 Every morning

252 (50.8)

 Almost every morning

92 (18.6)

 A few times a week

70 (14.1)

 Once a week or less

82 (16.5)

Meat consumption

 

 Twice a day or more often

26 (5.2)

 Once a day

80 (16.1)

 A few times weekly

225 (45.4)

 Once a week or less

165 (33.3)

Salt consumption

 

 Twice a day or more often

38 (7.7)

 Once a day

72 (14.5)

 A few times weekly

199 (40.1)

 Once a week or less

187 (37.7)

Tobacco use

 

Tobacco user (cigarettes or snuff/smokeless tobacco)

75 (15.1)

 Cigarrette smoker

49 (9.9)

  Cigarettes/day, Mean (SD)

10.4 (7.9)

  Smoked but quit

98 (21.9)

 Snuff/smokeless tobacco user

33 (6.7)

  Snuff boxes/week, Mean (SD)

3.3 (2.9)

  Used but quit

17 (3.7)

Alcohol use

 

AUDIT-C, Mean (SD)

1.9 (2.4)

 Risk consumption of alcohol

111 (22.3)

Drug use in the past year

 

 Never

414 (83.5)

 Less than monthly

41 (8.3)

 Monthly

11 (2.2)

 Weekly

9 (1.8)

 Daily or almost daily

21 (4.2)

Sleep

 

Average sleep duration per night

 

 6 h or less

130 (26.2)

 7–9 h

308 (62.1)

 9 h or more

58 (11.7)

Waking up feeling fresh and rested

 

 None of the time

124 (25.0)

 A little of the time

144 (29.0)

 Some of the time

126 (25.4)

 A good bit of the time

58 (11.7)

 Most of the time

37 (7.5)

 All of the time

7 (1.4)

  1. Abbreviations: AUDIT-C, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test– Concise; IPAQ-SF, The International Physical Activity Questionnaire - Short Form; MET, Metabolic equivalent of task; SD, standard deviation