Perceived barriers towards the importance and application of medical research: a source of gender disparity among medical undergraduates

Table 3 Differences between scores between men and women

Score	Men	Women	p-value*
Attitudes score	42.87 ± 7.03	43.97 ± 6.85	0.047**
Knowledge barriers score	14.99 ± 4.46	15.87 ± 4.47	0.013
Organizational barriers score	53.24 ± 8.99	54.37 ± 8.85	0.110
Misc. barriers score	23.17 ± 5.95	24.77 ± 6.15	0.001
Total barriers score	91.41 ± 14.81	95.02 ± 15.24	0.003

*Mean differences across calculated total scores were examined by the independent sample t-test
**p-value for mean differences in attitudes score became insignificant post correction with the Holm-Bonferroni method (p = 0.094).

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