Table 2.

Responses to the questions about the usefulness of virtual networking events among respondents with and without experience of such events

	Mean (s.d.)
	Experienced (n = 85)	Inexperienced (n = 13)	Pa
Overall usefulness	4.20 (0.8)	3.31 (1.38)	0.013
Forming professional relationships	3.91 (0.88)	3.23 (1.09)	0.025
Forming personal relationships	3.33 (1.15)	3.38 (0.96)	0.871
Improving professional skills	4.02 (0.89)	3.46 (0.97)	0.041
Having a sense of unity	3.31 (1.08)	3.23 (0.93)	0.686

^a.Two-tailed Mann–Whitney U-test was used (P < 0.05 was statistically significant). Statistically significant P-values are shown in bold.