Table 1.

Estimated coefficients and odds ratios by multiple logistic regression for undertaking research

Variable	Coefficient	Adjusted odds ratio	95% CI	P value
Gender
Female	Reference
Male	0.47	1.60	1.40–1.84	<0.001
Region in the UK
London	Reference
Midlands and East	−0.30	0.73	0.60–0.89	<0.001
North	−0.26	0.76	0.63–0.93	<0.001
Northern Ireland	−0.79	0.45	0.29–0.69	<0.001
Scotland – North and East	−0.61	0.54	0.34–0.83	<0.001
Scotland – West and South	−0.45	0.63	0.48–0.84	<0.001
South	−0.37	0.68	0.56–0.83	<0.001
Wales	−0.34	0.71	0.52–0.97	<0.01
Job plan
Full time	Reference
Full time flexible	−0.20	0.81	0.50–1.30	0.39
Less than full time	−0.69	0.50	0.43–0.58	<0.001
Specialty
Specialties contributing most to acute or general internal medicine	Reference
Other specialties	0.65	1.91	1.67–2.20	<0.001