Sex-Specific Lifestyle Patterns and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Adolescents, 2022-2023

A cross-sectional study of 19,057 adolescents aged 11–19 years in Ningbo, China, conducted from 2022 to 2023. The data examines associations between combined lifestyle patterns—sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, screen-based sedentary time, and sleep duration—and depressive symptoms, stratified by sex. The dataset was created by Yi Lin and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the association between combined lifestyle patterns and depressive symptoms based on sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, screen time, and sleep.
• Investigating sex-specific differences in mental health risk factors among adolescents.
• Evaluating the interplay of multiple lifestyle behaviors on mental well-being.
• Informing the design of school-based health promotion strategies targeting specific lifestyle combinations.

Strengths

• Includes data from 19,057 adolescents, providing a substantial sample size.
• Reports specific prevalence rates for depressive symptoms (14.54% in boys vs. 18.27% in girls).
• Analyzes combined lifestyle patterns using three defined behavioral variables.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data is limited to a single geographic region (Ningbo, China) and a specific time frame (2022-2023).

Provenance

Source

Yi Lin

Collection Method

A school-based study using a multistage, stratified cluster sampling procedure.

Time Range

2022 to 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 05:43:27; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ningbo, China