Table 4 Patients’ assessment of the medical graduates’ professionalism and communication skills by gender, age, residency and education level
From: Patients’ assessment of professionalism and communication skills of medical graduates
Variables | Patient’s assessment | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Very good | Good | Inadequate | Total | ||||||||
No | % | No | % | No | % | No | % | df | χ2 | p | |
Gender | |||||||||||
Male | 63 | 37.1 | 74 | 43.5 | 33 | 19.4 | 170 | 54.0 | 1 | .307 | .579 |
Female | 51 | 35.2 | 77 | 53.1 | 17 | 11.7 | 145 | 46.0 | |||
Age group | |||||||||||
18-25 | 31 | 32.0 | 60 | 61.6 | 6 | 6.2 | 97 | 30.8 | 3 | 30.5 | .001* |
26-35 | 36 | 37.1 | 36 | 37.1 | 25 | 25.8 | 97 | 30.8 | |||
36-45 | 15 | 25.0 | 36 | 60.0 | 9 | 15.0 | 60 | 19.0 | |||
>45 | 32 | 52.5 | 19 | 31.1 | 10 | 16.4 | 61 | 19.4 | |||
Education | |||||||||||
Illiterate | 28 | 40.0 | 28 | 40.0 | 14 | 20.0 | 70 | 22.2 | 3 | 14.0 | .003* |
Primary | 37 | 45.7 | 34 | 42.0 | 10 | 12.3 | 81 | 25.7 | |||
Secondary | 42 | 35.6 | 63 | 53.4 | 13 | 11.0 | 118 | 37.5 | |||
University | 7 | 15.2 | 26 | 56.5 | 13 | 28.3 | 46 | 14.6 | |||
Residency | |||||||||||
Urban | 79 | 34.5 | 110 | 48.0 | 40 | 17.5 | 229 | 72.7 | 1 | 1.78 | .182 |
Rural | 35 | 40.7 | 41 | 47.5 | 10 | 11.6 | 86 | 27.3 | |||