Chunk #58 — 5. Discussion — 5.1. Prevalence and Levels of Stress, Depression, and Alcohol Use Disorders of Slovak Students in an International Comparison
With a focus on the mean value of the total PHQ 9 score (mean = 5.73), it is possible to observe a mild level of depression in Slovak university students. Hajduk et al. [74] also found that Slovak students suffer from mild depression (mean = 8.54). Thus, Slovak students are comparable to students from Croatia (median = 6) [77], Germany (mean = 6.77), China (mean = 6.99) [76], Turkey (mean = 7.39) [56], or Malaysia (mean = 8.10) [75], who reported mild depression. Again, female students acquired a slightly higher score than male students, but a significant difference was not confirmed, which is consistent with the results of the Japanese study [78]. On the other hand, greater gender differences in scores were found in a study conducted by Miranda and Scoppetta [69].
