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Table 1 Participants’ characteristics of the pilot study

From: Development in Danish medical students’ empathy: study protocol of a cross-sectional and longitudinal mixed-methods study

Variables

Total (N = 862)

Completed (N = 258)

Partly completed (N = 47)

Non-response (N = 557)

Male N(%)

324 (100.0)

75 (23.1)

17 (5.2)

232 (71.6)

Female N(%)

538 (100.0)

183 (34.0)

30 (5.6)

325 (60.4)

Age: 18–25 N(%)

497 (100.0)

157 (31.6)

31 (6.2)

309 (62.2)

Age: > = 25 N(%)

365 (100.0)

101 (27.7)

16 (4.4)

248 (67.9)

aQuota 1 N(%)

427 (100.0)

124 (29.0)

24 (5.6)

279 (65.3)

aQuota 2 N(%)

395 (100.0)

126 (31.9)

21 (5.3)

248 (62.8)

aQuota missing N(%)

40 (100.0)

8 (20.0)

2 (5.0)

30 (75.0)

1st year N(%)

326 (100.0)

113 (34.7)

17 (5.2)

196 (60.1)

3rd year N(%)

277 (100.0)

81 (29.2)

16 (5.8)

180 (65.0)

6th year N(%)

259 (100.0)

64 (24.7)

14 (5.4)

181 (69.9)

  1. aQuota refers to how the students are enrolled into the universities. Quota 1 is based exclusively on the students’ marks whereas Quota 2 takes into account other qualifying aspects as related work or volunteer experiences