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Table 2 Demographic characteristics of final- year medical students from a public and a private university

From: Development and validation of an instrument to assess the prescribing readiness of medical students in Malaysia

 

Public university (n = 123)

Private university (n = 53)

p-value ‡

Gender [n (%)]a

   

Female

83 (67.5)

31 (58.5)

0.252

Male

40 (32.5)

22 (41.5)

Mean age ± SD (years) [range]

24.2 ± 0.8 [23–29]

24.2 ± 1.1 [22–28]

0.943

Ethnicity [n (%)]a

   

Malay

67 (54.5)

28 (52.8)

0.107

Chinese

52 (42.3)

19 (35.8)

Indian

2 (1.6)

5 (9.4)

Others

2 (1.6)

1 (1.9)

  1. SD Standard deviation
  2. ‡χ2 test was used for all categorical variables whilst the independent t-test was used for all continuous variables
  3. aData unavailable for 1 participant (gender), 1 participant (ethnicity)
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