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Table 1 Participant characteristics and descriptive statistics of PPOS and PCMI scores

From: Changes in patient-centered attitude and confidence in communicating with patients: a longitudinal study of resident physicians

  

T1 participants (N = 204)

T2 participants (N = 95)

T2 non-participants (N = 109)

 
  

N

%

N

%

N

%

p-value a)

Gender

Male

112

54.9

56

59.0

56

51.4

0.278

Female

92

45.1

39

41.1

53

48.6

Specialty orientation

Internal

78

38.2

44

46.3

34

31.2

0.078

Surgical

50

24.5

19

20.0

31

28.4

Other

38

18.6

19

20.0

19

17.4

undecided/missing

38

18.6

13

13.7

25

22.9

  

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

 

Age

(years)

26.24

3.26

25.82

2.73

26.61

3.63

0.087

PPOS

 

4.56

0.43

4.50

0.48

4.61

0.38

0.079

  Share

 

4.33

0.54

4.26

0.61

4.39

0.46

0.093

  Care

 

4.79

0.47

4.74

0.49

4.83

0.45

0.201

PCMI

 

2.50

0.53

2.43

0.56

2.55

0.50

0.102

  1. PPOS patient–practitioner orientation scale, PCMI physician confidence in the medical interview
  2. aDifferences between T2 participants and non-participants were examined by chi-square test or t-test
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