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Table 3 Relationship between socio-demographics and psychosomatic disorder

From: Psychosomatic problems among medical students: a myth or reality?

Variables

n = 385

Test statistics \(\chi^{2}\)

p value

Presence

Absence

n (%)

n (%)

Age in categories (years)

 ≤24

38 (14.3)

227 (85.7)

0.002

0.964

 >24

17 (14.2)

103 (85.8)

  

Sex

 Male

33 (14.2)

199 (85.8)

0.002

0.966

 Female

22 (14.4)

131 (85.6)

  

Social class

 Upper

33 (15.2)

184 (84.8)

  

 Middle

11 (17.2)

53 (82.8)

1.759

0.415

 Lower

11 (10.6)

93 (89.4)

  
  1. Italic values indicate significance of p values (p < 0.05)