Covid-19 crisis impact on the next generation of physicians: a survey of 800 medical students

BMC Medical Education

Table 4 Impact of sadness score on students’ doubts regarding their capacity to be a doctor

SADNESS SCORE
Likert score		0 to 6	7 to 10	Total	Chi squared with 1 degrees of freedom / Two-tailed P value
At the peak of the outbreak, did you doubt your capacity to be a doctor?	NO	442	224	666	30.446 / p < 0.0001
	YES	56	80	136
	Total	498	304	802

Source: Medical students survey data
Students with a sadness score of 7 or higher have significantly more doubts as to their being suited to this occupation than those with a score between 0 and 6 (p < 0.0001, Chi-square without Yates’ correction)

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