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Table 4 Relationship between baseline difficulty with living in a rural area and rural self-efficacy before rural clinical training

From: Relationship between rural self-efficacy and rural career intent after rural clinical training: a study on medical students in Japan

Baseline characteristics N = 563

N

Rural self-efficacy score Mean (SD)

p-value

Difficulty with living in a rural area

 Strongly agree

27

39.4 ± 6.1a,b,c

 < 0.001

 Agree

197

43.4 ± 6.0a

 Disagree

295

44.5 ± 5.1

 Strongly disagree

44

46.8 ± 6.5

  1. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation (SD)
  2. ap = 0.001 versus “strongly disagree”,
  3. bp = 0.001 versus “disagree”,
  4. cp = 0.003 versus “agree”
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