Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants.

From: Tapping into truth: an exploratory cross-sectional analysis of psychomotor symptoms and typing behaviour in an adolescent observational cohort

 

Total sample

 

N = 895

 

M

SD

Age (years)

13.82

0.56

Depressive symptoms (PHQ-A)

8.01

6.57

Anxiety symptoms (CAS-8)

9.31

5.65

Insomnia symptoms (ISI)

7.77

5.90

Disordered eating symptoms (SDE)

1.68

1.49

Keystroke timing features (Median, ms)

 Dwell

78.98

13.70

 Latency

301.69

74.82

 Interval

146.92

65.94

 Down-down time

221.03

69.40

 Up-up time

224.94

69.37

Keystroke frequency features (total)

  

 Keystrokes

96.86

31.24

 Spaces

16.40

6.34

 Backspaces

7.58

6.54

Keystroke Frequency Features (proportion)

  

 Spaces

16.81

3.15

 Backspaces

8.14

7.15

Duration between mental health assessment and typing days (days)

1.95

3.26

 

N

%

Sex

 Female

579

64.7

 Male

308

34.4

 Not sure

4

0.4

 Other

4

0.4

Location

 Major cities

666

74.4

 Inner regional

200

22.3

 Outer regional

29

3.2

Language spoken at home

 English

834

93.2

 Other

61

6.8

Typing hand

 Both

615

68.7

 Right

57

6.4

 Left

7

0.8

 Not reported

216

24.1

Device

 iPhone

188

21.0

 Android

49

5.5

 Not reported

658

73.5

Text typing script

 “For a minute or two…”

109

12.2

 “There was a table set…”

117

13.1

 “So much I’ll tell you…”

113

12.6

 “Then the sound of…”

115

12.8

 “They were friends in…”

106

11.8

 “The winter was very…”

119

13.3

 “A little girl, radiant…”

101

11.3

 “But they by no means…”

115

12.8