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. 2023 Oct 3;23:724. doi: 10.1186/s12909-023-04674-7

Table 1.

Characteristics of the study participants

Japanese students Vietnamese students Total
(n = 394) (n = 2354) (n = 2748)
Age (mean ± SD) 18.5 ± 1.1 19.2 ± 0.7 19.1 ± 0.8
Male (n, %) 161 (41.5) 926 (39.3) 1087 (39.6)
Type of majors
Medicine and nursing 239 (60.8) 1190 (50.5) 1429 (52)
Dentistry 90 (22.9) 162 (6.9) 252 (9.2)
Pharmacy 64 (16.3) 583 (24.8) 647 (23.5)
Public health 0 205 (8.7) 205 (7.5)
Chinese medicine 0 214 (9.1) 214 (7.8)

SD: standard deviations