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Table 2 Psychosocial measures and their distributions for Indigenous respondents

From: Mastery, perceived stress and health-related behaviour in northeast Arnhem Land: a cross-sectional study

 

n

range

mean

SD†

95% CI‡

25th percentile

50th percentile

75th percentile

Mastery

177

0–30

15.2

4.24

14.6–15.8

12.9

14.3

17.2

Chronic stress*

79

0–8

4.99

1.94

4.6–5.4

4.0

5.0

6.0

Recent stress*

79

0–3

1.30

1.16

1.0–1.6

0.0

1.0

2.0

Youth stress*

65

0–4

0.94

1.04

0.7–1.2

0.0

1.0

2.0

  1. *Stress measures were removed from the measurement protocol halfway through the survey on the basis of community concerns about excessive numbers of items; †standard deviation; ‡95% confidence interval
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International Journal for Equity in Health

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