GENDER DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONG KUWAIT UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATES

From: Social Behavior and Personality | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

This study examined the health status of Kuwait University undergraduates. The Health Problems Checklist (Schinka, 1989) was administered to determine the prevalence and the gender differences in health problems among 945 subjects (343 males and 602 females). The frequency percentage to test the prevalence rates of variables and t-test analysis were performed using SPSS to test the differences between the means of variables. These were high rates of health problems among males in the variables of dermatology, audio/olfactory, general, endocrine/hematological, genitourinary, neurological and ...

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