Table 4.
Comparison of diet during the COVID-19 pandemic among males and females in pre-clerkship and clerkship years
| Variables | Males n (%) |
Females n (%) |
Pre-clerkship n (%) |
Clerkship n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How would you rate your overall habits of eating healthy foods? | 43 (95.6%) | 73 (98.6%) | 88 (96.7%) | 28 (100%) |
| How many regular soda, sweet tea, juice, energy/sports drinks, sweetened-coffee or other sugar sweetened beverages did you drink each day? | ||||
| How many times a day did you eat fast/fried food/or packaged snacks high in fat/salt/or sugar? | ||||
| How many times a day did you eat regular (not low-fat) snack chips or crackers? | ||||
| How many times a day did you eat sweet foods (not the low-fat kind) or desserts, like chocolate or ice cream, and other sweets? | ||||
| How many times a day did you eat dairy products (milk, unsweetened yogurt, low-fat cheese)? | ||||
| How many times a day did you eat meat/fish/beans? | ||||
| Mean score ± STD | 95.6 ± 20.8 | 98.7 ± 11.6 | 96.7 ± 18.0 | 100.0 ± 0.0 |
| p value | 0.37 | 0.08 |
Data reflect the participants who scored a total between 18 and 35