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Table 1 Characteristics of survey respondents

From: Demographics, clinical interests, and ophthalmology skills confidence of medical student volunteers and non-volunteers in an extracurricular community vision screening service-learning program

  

Overall

ViSION Volunteers

Non-ViSION

Volunteers

P-valuea

Sample Size, N (%)

 

118 (100%)

26 (100%)

92 (100%)

 

Gender, N (%)

Female

73 (61.9%)

14 (53.8%)

59 (64.1%)

 
 

Male

44 (37.3%)

12 (46.2%)

32 (34.8%)

 
 

Other

1 (0.8%)

0 (0%)

1 (1.1%)

0.502

Race, N (%)

Asian

38 (32.2%)

12 (46.2%)

26 (28.3%)

 
 

Black or African American

6 (5.1%)

2 (7.7%)

4 (4.3%)

 
 

Multiple/Other

7 (5.9%)

1 (3.8%)

6 (6.5%)

 
 

White

67 (56.8%)

11 (42.3%)

56 (60.9%)

0.211

Age, mean ± SD

Range: 23–35

26.4 ± 2.8

25.8 ± 2.3

26.5 ± 2.9

0.721

Medical training year, N (%)

MS1

35 (29.7%)

7 (26.9%)

28 (30.4%)

 
 

MS2

26 (22%)

4 (15.4%)

22 (23.9%)

 
 

MS3

20 (16.9%)

7 (26.9%)

13 (14.1%)

 
 

MS4

37 (31.4%)

8 (30.8%)

29 (31.5%)

0.463

Duration of ViSION

Involvement, N (%)

 < 1 year

-

9 (34.6%)

-

 

1–2 years

-

14 (53.8%)

-

 

2–3 years

-

2 (7.7%)

-

 
 

 > 5 years

-

1 (3.8%)

-

 

Number of Screenings Attended, median (IQR)

Range: 0–25

 

2 (1, 5)

  
  1. Abbreviations: N number of respondents, IQR: interquartile range;
  2. aP-values computed using Fisher's exact chi-square test comparing ViSION volunteers to non-volunteers