. 2024 Aug 21;24:900. doi: 10.1186/s12909-024-05886-1

Table 3.

PTMQ subdomain and item comparisons across Medicine, Medical Imaging and Optometry

Subdomain	Medicine	Medical Imaging	Optometry	P value
Intrinsic	1.87 ± 0.93	1.56 ± 0.17	1.74 ± 0.08	0.183
Identified	1.49 ± 0.08	1.40 ± 0.14	1.65 ± 0.07	0.146
Introjected	3.79 ± 0.14	3.28 ± 0.26	3.78 ± 0.13	0.200
Career	3.75 ± 0.13	2.19 ± 0.23	3.11 ± 0.11	0.003^{a, b,c}
External	4.25 ± 0.11	3.21 ± 0.21	4.24 ± 0.10	0.001^{a, c}
Amotivation	4.16 ± 0.12	4.42 ± 0.22	4.07 ± 0.11	0.368
Survey Item
Item 1	1.94 ± 0.13	1.75 ± 0.23	1.92 ± 0.11	0.757
Item 2	1.68 ± 0.10	1.50 ± 0.18	1.56 ± 0.09	0.562
Item 3	2.00 ± 0.11	1.56 ± 0.21	1.94 ± 0.10	0.171
Item 4	1.83 ± 0.11	1.25 ± 0.20	1.58 ± 0.09	0.062
Item 5	1.22 ± 0.08	1.13 ± 0.14	1.45 ± 0.07	0.061
Item 6	1.80 ± 0.11	1.56 ± 0.21	1.83 ± 0.10	0.510
Item 7	1.44 ± 0.09	1.50 ± 0.16	1.66 ± 0.08	0.164
Item 8	3.46 ± 0.17	3.13 ± 0.30	3.68 ± 0.14	0.229
Item 9	4.11 ± 0.14	3.44 ± 0.26	3.89 ± 0.12	0.067
Item 10	4.00 ± 0.16	2.69 ± 0.29	3.49 ± 0.14	0.001^{a, b,c}
Item 11	3.41 ± 0.16	1.81 ± 0.29	2.47 ± 0.14	0.001^{a, b}
Item 12	3.85 ± 0.15	2.06 ± 0.27	3.37 ± 0.13	0.001^{a, c}
Item 13	4.26 ± 0.14	3.00 ± 0.25	4.13 ± 0.12	0.001^{a, c}
Item 14	3.89 ± 0.16	2.81 ± 0.29	4.01 ± 0.14	0.001^{a, c}
Item 15	4.59 ± 0.10	3.81 ± 0.19	4.59 ± 0.09	0.001^{a, c}
Item 16	3.70 ± 0.17	4.00 ± 0.32	3.55 ± 0.15	0.426^{a, c}
Item 17	4.39 ± 0.12	4.56 ± 0.22	4.39 ± 0.11	0.772
Item 18	4.39 ± 0.13	4.27 ± 0.23	4.27 ± 0.11	0.260

Data represents means ± SEM. Superscript letters indicate significant Post hoc differences (p < 0.05) incorporating Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons. ^a difference between Medical Imaging and Medicine; ^b difference between Medicine and Optometry; ^c difference between Optometry and Medical Imaging.