Students’ intentions to practice primary care are associated with their motives to become doctors: a longitudinal study

Table 2 Relation between students’ motives to become doctors and primary care career intentions versus undecided

Motive	Coefficient	Standard error	Degrees of freedom	t-value	p-value
(Intercept)	−10.934	3.949	127	− 2.770	0.006
Private practice	0.610	0.208	114	2.924	0.004
Altruism	1.648	0.366	114	4.504	< 0.0001
Academic interest	−0.495	0.232	114	−2.133	0.035
Prestige	−0.101	0.232	114	−0.436	0.664
Cure disease	−0.016	0.301	114	−0.055	0.957
Vocation	−0.002	0.216	114	−0.011	0.992
Saving lives	−0.446	0.338	114	−1.320	0.189
Academic year	1.491	0.252	114	5.911	< 0.0001
Female gender	0.779	0.751	127	1.036	0.302
Age	−0.077	0.162	114	−0.471	0.639

Estimated non-standardized coefficients from a generalized linear mixed model comparing primary care career intentions to undecided students (model 2). Estimated variance of random effects σ ̂ = 3.25

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