Table 2.

Demographic characteristics of study sample

	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%)

^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