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Table 4 Factors associated with positive change of students' attitudes toward community health care

From: Does community-based education increase students' motivation to practice community health care? - a cross sectional study

 

Worthwile

Confidence

 

Positive change†, n(%)

Crude RR (95%CI)

Adjusted RR (95%CI)‡

Positive change†, n(%)

Crude RR (95%CI)

Adjusted RR (95%CI)§

Gender

      

   Male

302 (61.1)

1.00

-

297 (60.1)

1.00

-

   Female

86 (57.0)

0.84 (0.58-1.22)

-

104 (68.9)

1.47 (0.99-2.17)

-

Training setting

      

   Hospital

142 (59.9)

1.00

-

136 (57.4)

1.00

-

   Hospital and clinic

210 (59.2)

0.97 (0.69-1.35)

-

231 (65.1)

1.37 (0.98-1.94)

-

   Clinic

36 (67.9)

1.42 (0.75-2.67)

-

34 (64.2)

1.33 (0.72-2.46)

-

Lerning Activities

      

   Ambulatroy care

388 (60.2)/-

-

-

401 (62.2)/-

-

-

   Home care

357 (61.6)/31 (47.7)

1.76 (1.05-2.94)

2.06 (1.03-4.12)

357 (61.6)/44 (67.7)

0.76 (0.44-1.32)

-

   Hospital care

339 (59.9)/49 (62.0)

0.91 (0.56-1.48)

-

353 (62.4)/48 (60.8)

1.07 (0.66-1.73)

-

   Placement in mobile clinics

296 (61.3)/92 (56.8)

1.20 (0.84-1.73)

-

302 (62.5)/99 (61.1)

1.06 (0.74-1.53)

-

   On-call work

286 (59.3)/102 (62.6)

0.87 (0.61-1.26)

-

300 (62.2)/101 (62.0)

1.01 (0.70-1.46)

-

   Placement in welfare facilities*

265 (59.7)/123 (61.2)

0.94 (0.67-1.32)

-

281 (63.3)/120 (59.7)

1.16 (0.83-1.64)

-

   Health education

274 (63.6)/114 (53.3)

1.53 (1.10-2.13)

1.70 (1.09-2.64)

283 (65.7)/118 (55.1)

1.56 (1.11-2.17)

1.56 (1.08-2.26)

   Day services

245 (60.6)/143 (59.3)

1.06 (0.76-1.46)

-

259 (64.1)/142 (58.9)

1.25 (0.90-1.73)

-

   Health check-ups

224 (60.9)/164 (59.2)

1.07 (0.78-1.47)

-

235 (63.9)/166 (59.9)

1.18 (0.86-1.63)

-

   Rihabilitation

233 (62.3)/155 (57.2)

1.24 (0.90-1.70)

-

247 (90.1)/154 (56.8)

1.48 (1.07-2.04)

1.26 (0.88-1.79)

   Vaccination

158 (62.9)/230 (58.4)

1.21 (0.88-1.68)

-

155 (61.8)/246 (62.4)

0.97 (0.70-1.35)

 

Number of learning activities

      

   1-4 items

12 (40.0)

1.00

1.00

17 (56.7)

1.00

-

   5-7 items

141 (62.7)

2.52 (1.16-5.49)

0.83 (0.30-2.30)

137 (60.9)

1.19 (0.55-2.57)

-

   8-11 items

235 (60.3)

2.27 (1.07-4.86)

0.51 (0.18-1.50)

247 (63.3)

1.32 (0.62-2.80)

-

  1. Abbrevation: RR, relative ratio; CI, confidence interval; Worthwhile,I think practicing community health care is worthwhile; Confidence,I am confident about practicing community health care.
  2. * Welfare facilities: welfare institusion or nursing home for the aged.
  3. †The number of the students with higher visual analogue scale score in the post- compared to the pre-questionnaire in each category of gender, training setting and the number of the learning acitivities and the experience/non-experience with each activity.
  4. ‡ Adjusted home care, health education, number of learning activities, gender, students' evaluations of the program, and the score of "worthwhile" before the clerkship. § Adjusted health education, health check-ups, gender, students' evaluations of the program, and the score of "confidence" before the clerkship.
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