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Table 1 Comparison between two groups, regarding study level and having sibling working in health related job

From: Preventive medicine as a first- or second-choice course: a cross-sectional survey into students’ motivational differences and implications for information provision

 

First-choice students

Second-choice students

  

n

%

Std. R

n

%

Std. R

χ2

p

N = 936

N = 450

 

Level of study

 Basic years

396

43.21

3.87

87

19.33

−5.58

98.49

.000*

 Clinical years

270

28.85

.41

120

26.67

−.59

 PM years

270

28.85

−4.11

243

54

5.92

 

N = 298

N = 142

 

Sibling with a health related job

 Student in medicine

64

21.48

−1.07

44

30.99

1.55

11.65

.009*

 Clinical doctor

38

12.75

−.91

27

19.01

1.31

 Preventive doctor

10

3.36

.93

1

.70

−1.35

 Other medical jobs

186

62.42

.96

70

49.30

−1.39

  1. * Significant difference between first-choice and second-choice students (with Bonferroni adjustment)