Finally, students were defined as graduate entry (versus non-graduate), based on previous higher education qualifications.
We considered the following variables for confounding, based on previous literature: age, PIR, education, number of live births, waist circumference, and CRP.
27 28 We wanted to estimate the area SES around each school objectively and based on previous Canadian studies, 29 education, employment and average income are valid indicators for community SES.
The primary research question asks; 'is education in combination with contact better than education alone for reducing stigma?' Based on previous research [ 26, 53] it is hypothesised that participants in the contact and education condition will report significantly reduced stigma towards mental illness compared with participants in the education only (control) condition.
Based on previous findings [7], [15], [17], age, sex, race, education, working status, and marital status were considered as potential confounders of the association between AB and MD.
Based on previous literature, the potential confounders age, sex, income, education, and alcohol consumption were included in the multivariate logistic regression models.
Based on previous optical surveys, only one was expected.
The model's design was based on previous experiences in the field of sustainability in higher education, and takes into account international declarations and other assessment models.
Covariates for this multivariate model, based on previous literature, included age, race/ethnicity, marital status, study site, education, insurance status, annual income, comorbidity, health status, and tumor characteristics [ 16, 17].
We focused on wealth, education and caste as key measures of socioeconomic status, based on previous work on social patterning of disease in India.
