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Table 2 Demographic characteristics of study sample

From: Beliefs around the causes of inequities and intergroup attitudes among health professional students before and after a course related to Indigenous Peoples and colonialism

 

2019

(n = 76)

2020

(n = 154)

2022

(n = 105)

Health professional programs:

 Medicine

26 (34.2%)

44 (32.6%)

24 (22.9%)

 Nursing

28 (38.8%)

73 (54.1%)

46 (43.8%)

 Dentistry/Dental Hygiene

11 (14.5%)

17 (12.6%)

20 (19.0%)

 Pharmacy

N/A

N/A

15 (14.3.%)

Gender:

 Women

47 (71.2%)

106 (79.1%)

87 (83.7%)

 Men

19 (28.8%)

28 (20.9%)

15 (14.4%)

 Non-Binary

1 (1.3%)

N/A

2 (1.9%)

Mean Age

24.61 (19 to 39)

23.69 (19 to 44)

23.08 (19 to 40)

Indigenous identity:

 Non-Indigenous

60 (90.9%)

119 (88.8%)

94 (89.5%)

 Indigenous

6 (9.1%)

15 (11.2%)

11 (10.5%)

Political views:

aMissing data

  

 Conservatives

 

4 (3.0%)

12 (11.5%)

 Liberals

 

48 (35.6)

21 (20.2%)

 New Democrat Party

 

39 (28.9%)

39 (37.5%)

 Green Party

 

23 (17%)

9 (8.7%)

 None

 

N/A

21 (20.2%)

 Other

 

18 (13.3%)

2 (1.9%)

  1. aIn 2019, respondents were asked how they would rate their political attitudes on a sliding scale between liberal (left wing) to conservative (right wing). We did not include these data in our analysis