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Table 5 A logistic regression model investigating the relationship between IEPS and KOLB learning style, BFI, gender, and age, in a study investigating personality and learning styles in relation to attitudes towards interprofessional education (IPE) among undergraduate medical students. Results are expressed as an odds ratio (OR) for being positive to IPE in a univariate and multivariable analysis

From: Personality and learning styles in relation to attitudes towards interprofessional education: a cross-sectional study on undergraduate medical students during their clinical courses

Variable

  

Crude measures

Univariable

Multivariable

  

Adjusted for all variables*

 

OR

95% CI

p-value

OR

95% CI

p-value

   

n

%

      

KOLB

EMORAT

1

16

27

Reference

  

Reference

  
 

2

16

27

1.000

0.239–4.184

1.00

1.473

0.197–11.032

0.706

 

3

28

47

1.500

0.408–5.518

0.542

3.086

0.469–20.291

0.241

REPRA

1

18

30

Reference

  

Reference

  
 

2

18

30

3.500

0.825–14.848

0.089

8.049

1.206–53.707

0.031**

 

3

24

40

2.429

0.678–8.701

0.173

4.094

0.612–27.374

0.146

BFI

Extraversion

Yes

24

40

Reference

  

Reference

  
 

No

36

60

1.857

0.624–5.530

0.266

1.758

0.416–7.425

0.443

Agreeableness

Yes

37

62

Reference

  

Reference

  
 

No

23

38

1.725

0.550–5.412

0.350

3.115

0.681–14.254

0.143

Neuroticism

Yes

28

47

Reference

  

Reference

  
 

No

32

53

0.351

0.112–1.098

0.072

0.315

0.075–1.319

0.114

Conscientiousness

Yes

30

50

Reference

  

Reference

  
 

No

30

50

1.833

0.616–5.453

0.276

1.251

0.276–5.666

0.772

Openness

Yes

33

55

Reference

  

Reference

  
 

No

27

45

0.545

0.184–1.613

0.273

0.347

0.078–1.549

0.165

Gender

Male

 

23

38

Reference

  

Reference

  

Female

 

37

62

1.11

0.370–3.338

0.851

0.607

0.101–3.665

0.587

Age

< 27

 

26

43

Reference

  

Reference

  

27–30

 

20

33

0.684

0.125–1.929

0.308

0.301

0.062–1.476

0.139

> 30

 

14

23

0.491

0.193–2.419

0.556

0.259

0.034–1.947

0.189

  1. CI Confidence Interval
  2. BFI Big Five Inventory
  3. IPE Interprofessional Education
  4. IEPS Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale
  5. *Logistic regression adjusted for age, gender, KOLB, and BFI
  6. ** Statistically significant