Table 1.
Demographic characteristics
| Experienced (n = 85) | Inexperienced (n = 13) | Pa | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years: mean (s.d.) | 36.5 (6.3) | 38.1 (7.9) | 0.518 |
| Gender (male:female:prefer not to say), n | 57:27:1 | 12:1:0 | 0.220 |
| Years of clinical experience, mean (s.d.) | 10.5 (5.9) | 11.0 (7.8) | 0.883 |
| Japanese, n | 62 | 12 | 0.204 |
| Overseas, n | 22 | 1 | − |
| Albanian | 1 | 0 | − |
| Belgian | 1 | 0 | − |
| German | 1 | 0 | − |
| Greek | 2 | 0 | − |
| Indian | 1 | 0 | − |
| Indonesian | 5 | 0 | − |
| Iranian | 1 | 0 | − |
| Italian | 1 | 0 | − |
| Maltese | 1 | 0 | − |
| Nepalese | 1 | 0 | − |
| Polish | 2 | 0 | − |
| Romanian | 1 | 0 | − |
| Taiwanese | 1 | 0 | − |
| Thai | 2 | 0 | − |
| Turkish | 1 | 1 | − |
| No response | 1 | 0 | − |
| Primary working facility, n | |||
| General hospital | 12 | 2 | − |
| Psychiatric clinic | 8 | 0 | − |
| Psychiatric hospital | 25 | 5 | − |
| University hospital | 32 | 5 | − |
| Other | 8 | 1 | − |
| Current job position, n | |||
| Academic post | 18 | 2 | − |
| Clinical doctor | 43 | 8 | − |
| Graduate student | 3 | 3 | − |
| Psychiatry resident | 21 | 0 | − |
| 1st JOIN meeting participants, n | 44 | 0 | − |
JOIN, Japan Young Psychiatrists Organization Online International Networking.
a.
Two-tailed Mann–Whitney U-test was used for continuous variables and two-tailed Fisher's exact test was used for categorical variables (P < 0.05 as statistical significance).