Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Table 1 Comparison of the demographic characteristics between PSST groups

From: Factors associated with the severity of premenstrual symptoms in women with central obesity: a cross-sectional study

Variable	Total N = 139		Mild n = 57		Moderate n = 45		Severe n = 41		p
Variable	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p
Age (years)	41.40	7.39	42.85^a	7.64	41.58	7.95	38.54^a	5.38	0.017*†

Variable	Total N = 143		Mild n = 57		Moderate n = 45		Severe n = 41		p
Variable	Frequency	%	Frequency	%	Frequency	%	Frequency	%	p
Education
Below high school	17	12.3	8	14.5	6	13.3	3	7.9	0.191‡
High school	24	17.4	8	14.5	11	24.4	5	13.2
Diploid	6	4.3	4	7.3	1	2.2	1	2.6
Bachelor	50	36.2	25	45.5	14	31.1	11	28.9
Masters	27	19.6	6	10.9	10	22.2	11	28.9
PhD	14	10.1	4	7.3	3	6.7	7	18.4

^†One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey post hoc test were used for the comparison
^‡The Monte Carlo test was used for the comparison
^ap = 0.013
*The difference is significant

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