Empathy in Chinese medical students: psychometric characteristics and differences by gender and year of medical education

Table 1 The Effective response rate of participants

Academic year	Participants number	Effective response number	Effective response rate
1^st year	211	181	85.8%
2^nd year	267	217	81.3%
3^rd year	275	249	90.5%
4^th year	149	106	71.1%
Total number	902	753	83.5%

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