ArticleBMC psychology2026
Effects of gender differences and lifestyle factors on depression among Chinese children and adolescents.
Article in BMC psychology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
purposeThis study aims to investigate the variations in the prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese children and adolescents with different lifestyles, including Internet use, breakfast, exercise, sleep and homework, and to further explore the impact of gender on the relationship between lifestyles and depressive symptoms.
methodsThe cross-sectional study recruited school-based students (8–18 years) throughout Chongqing, China. The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC) was utilized to assess depressive symptoms. Lifestyle factors were assessed based on self-reported responses to specific questions about time or frequency. Binary logistic regression was employed to identify the factors significantly contributing to the prevalence of depressive symptoms. The analysis was stratified by gender.
resultsA total of 22,373 children and adolescents were recruited from February 2019 to December 2019, comprising 11,141 boys (49.80%) and 11,232 girls (50.20%). Among them, 2922 (13.06%) participants reported experiencing depressive symptoms, with a prevalence rate of 10.56% for boys and 15.54% for girls. The binary logistic regression analysis revealed that spending more than 2 h on the Internet, skipping breakfast, and spending more than 1.5 h on homework were risk factors for depressive symptoms. Conversely, exercising for 3 to 5 h and sleeping for 6 to 10 h were protective factors of depressive symptoms. Notably, gender-stratified analysis revealed that the associations between depressive symptoms and both Internet use and exercise were statistically significant only among girls.
conclusionsThe insights gained from this study may assist in raising awareness among families and schools about the need to focus on the lifestyles of children and adolescents, with special attention to gender interactions, when implementing preventive measures for depressive symptoms.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.