Personal health promotion at US medical schools: a quantitative study and qualitative description of deans' and students' perceptions

Table 7 Comparing Dean's perceptions of their school's health promotion in relation to that of other medical schools* with school rankings based on students' opinions.

"My school	r ^¶	p-value
...encourages students to lead healthy lives."	.78	.0026
...emphasizes preventive medicine in medical practice."	.45	.1433
...encourages extracurricular activities that promote medical students' health."	.70	.0118
...encourages students to exercise."	.77	.0051
...helps students minimize/cope with stress."	.77/.75^φ	.0033/.0047
...encourages students' healthy eating."	.68	.0151

*In which response possibilities were: much less, less, average, more, much more.
^¶ Spearman's correlation coefficient.
^φThe Deans' survey asked one question that queried both minimizing and coping with stress, while students were asked one about each aspect of stress. Correlations are presented for minimizing stress and coping with stress, respectively.