Table 1
Overall Perceptions of Social Accountability Instrument (PSAI) scores for 484 medical students by student characteristics
|
Student characteristic |
No. (%) of students |
Overall PSAI score, mean (SD) a,c |
p-value |
f‑statistic |
d.f. |
Cohen’s d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Gender (t-tests) | ||||||
|
<0.001 |
1.434 |
2 |
0.352 | |||
|
Male |
192 (40) |
105.86 (14.1) | ||||
|
Female |
289 (60) |
110.74 (13.6) | ||||
|
Medical school year (ANOVA) | ||||||
|
0.246 |
1.409 |
2 |
0.139b | |||
|
First |
175 (36) |
107.4 (15.76) | ||||
|
Third |
195 (40) |
109.7 (12.8) | ||||
|
Sixth |
114 (24) |
109.25 (12.7) | ||||
|
Post hoc analysis: no significant differences were found between groups on the overall PSAI scores | ||||||
|
PSAI-MSATU scale scores (linear regression) | ||||||
|
ANOVA |
<0.001 |
148 | ||||
|
VIF |
1.000 | |||||
|
R2 |
0.135 | |||||
|
Durbin-Watson |
1.973 | |||||
a Data are for the 484 first year, third, and sixth year students at the University of Cape Town Medical School who responded to the complete survey in 2013. Not all of these students provided demographics and other types of data, so the total number does not add up to 484 for each characteristic
b η2
c Possible overall PSAI scores range from 28–140
Fig. 1
PSAI score for respondents, % (n = 484; possible overall PSAI scores range from 28–140)
