Trajectories of mental distress and quality of life during Ramadan fasting in young Israeli Muslims are gender-specific.

Sci Rep · 2026 · PMC13018535 · PMID 41714398

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The comparisons between Points B and C showed no significant main effect, however the interaction showed a trend of significant [F(1, 282) = 3.485, p = 0.063, η 2 = 0.012], indicating that during Ramadan there was a dissociation between the direction of the changes in the Stress scores between females and males.

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Regarding the Depression symptoms, the proportions between genders at baseline, Point A, were similar, a trend toward significance was observed at Point B, significant differences developed at Point C and were followed by marginally significant differences at Points D and E.

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