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Table 3 Association between participants’ gender and first-generation student status with their APSQ score to each domain

From: Attitudes of undergraduate medical students toward patients’ safety in Jordan: a multi-center cross-sectional study

Item Domains

Gender

 

FGM

 

Female

Male

 

No

Yes

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

p-value

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

p-value

Patient safety training received

4.96

1.33

4.84

1.44

0.007

4.89

1.43

4.94

1.34

0.183

Error reporting confidence

4.93

1.46

4.83

1.48

0.485

4.84

1.52

4.91

1.45

0.288

Working hours as error cause

5.95

1.31

5.68

1.41

0.003

5.84

1.40

5.87

1.33

0.341

Error inevitability

5.18

1.08

5.15

1.23

0.002

5.11

1.12

5.19

1.14

0.592

Professional incompetence as error cause

3.58

0.66

3.53

0.75

0.002

3.60

0.75

3.55

0.67

0.021

Disclosure responsibility

4.76

0.88

4.73

0.89

0.957

4.66

0.88

4.79

0.89

0.507

Team functioning

5.77

1.26

5.77

1.31

0.268

5.77

1.27

5.77

1.28

0.980

Patient involvement in reducing error

5.02

1.27

5.06

1.39

0.025

4.97

1.37

5.06

1.29

0.732

Importance of patient safety in the curriculum

5.26

0.96

5.22

1.06

0.047

5.21

1.00

5.26

0.99

0.803

  1. SD: Standard deviation, FGM: First-generation medical student