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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of the medical students enrolled in the study

From: Application of a classroom-based positive psychology education course for Chinese medical students to increase their psychological well-being: a pilot study

Variables

Preliminary set

Validation set

Pre-course

N = 61

Post-course

N = 49a

Pre-course

N = 52

Post-course

N = 46b

Age (range, M, SD)

17–22, 19.4, 0.92

17–22, 19.5, 0.94

17–21, 18.3, 0.79 0.79

17–21; 18.5, 0.78

Academic year

 Year 2

36 (59%)

31 (63.3%)

52

46 (100%)

 Year 3

25 (41%)

18 (36.7%)

0

0

Gender

 Female

43 (70%)

36 (73.5%)

35 (67.3%)

31 (67.4%)

 Male

18 (30%)

13 (26.5%)

17 (32.7%)

15 (32.6%)

  1. Abbreviations: M mean, SD standard deviation
  2. a12 students discontinued the study, b6 students discontinued the study