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Table 5 Cross tabulation between students’ demographic characteristics and opinion

From: Dietary supplement use among undergraduate male students in health and non-health cluster colleges of a public-sector university in Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Independent Variable

Dietary supplements are good for health

P-value

 

Agree

Do not know

Disagree

 

College

   

< 0.01

 Clinical pharmacy

49 (33.4)

17 (25.8)

4 (10.7)

 

 Medicine

62 (43.9)

23 (33.9)

7 (14.1)

 

 Nursing

7 (10.5)

9 (8.1)

6 (3.4)

 

 Applied medical sciences

12 (17.2)

14 (13.3)

10 (5.5)

 

 Sharia and law

10 (18.6)

23 (14.4)

6 (6)

 

 Architecture and planning

15 (27.2)

32 (21)

10 (8.8)

 

 Engineering

21 (17.2)

9 (13.3)

6 (5.5)

 

 Applied studies and community service

7 (12.9)

13 (10)

7 (4.1)

 

 Business

27 (20.5)

11 (15.9)

5 (6.6)

 

 Science

14 (22.4)

22 (17.3)

11 (7.2)

 

College cluster

   

< 0.001

 Health

130 (105.1)

63 (81.2)

27 (33.8)

 

 Non-health

94 (118.9)

110 (91.8)

45 (38.2)

 

Study year

   

< 0.001

 Prep Year

26 (40.1)

39 (31)

19 (12.9)

 

 2nd Year

52 (65.9)

63 (50.9)

23 (21.2)

 

 3rd Year

47 (43.9)

32 (33.9)

13 (14.1)

 

 4th Year

35 (28.2)

17 (21.8)

7 (9.1)

 

 5th Year

61 (42.5)

19 (32.8)

9 (13.7)

 

 6th Year

3 (3.3)

3 (2.6)

1 (1.1)

 

Siblings

   

> 0.05

 Between 1 and 2 siblings

28 (23.4)

14 (18.1)

7 (7.5)

 

 Between 3 and 5 siblings

120 (125.1)

103 (96.6)

39 (40.2)

 

 Between 6 and 8 siblings

54 (48.7)

35 (37.6)

13 (15.7)

 

 More than 8 siblings

22 (23.9)

17 (18.4)

11 (7.7)

 

 No siblings

0 (2.9)

4 (2.2)

2 (0.9)

 

Any major illness

   

> 0.05

 Do not suffer from any illness

198 (200.6)

156 (154.9)

66 (64.5)

 

 Suffer from a major illness

26 (23.4)

17 (18.1)

6 (7.5)