Table 2.
Linear or quadratic association of PRA, AA-Med and TFA scores with correct, wrong, and blank answers for Immunology and Microbiology examinations
| Immunology | Microbiology | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome: | β | CI 95% | P | β | CI 95% | p |
| Exposition: PRA | ||||||
| Correct | ||||||
| Model 1 | 0.06 | (− 0.53; 0.64) | 0.85 | − 0.19 | (− 0.71; 0.33) | 0.48 |
| Model 2 | 0.24 | (− 0.24; 0.72) | 0.32 | − 0.03 | (− 0.55; 0.49) | 0.92 |
| Wrong | ||||||
| Model 1 | 0.01 | (− 0.01; 0.03) | 0.26 | − 0.21 | (− 0.61; 0.19) | 0.30 |
| Model 2 | 0.01 | (− 0.01; 0.04) | 0.23 | − 0.34 | (− 0.76; 0.09) | 0.12 |
| Blank | ||||||
| Model 1 | − 0.24 | (− 0.89; 0.41) | 0.46 | 0.40 | (− 0.37; 1.17) | 0.31 |
| Model 2 | − 0.42 | (− 1.04; 0.19) | 0.17 | 0.36 | (− 0.46; 1.19) | 0.39 |
| Exposition: AA-Med | ||||||
| Correct | ||||||
| Model 1 | ||||||
| Linear term | 9.64 | (4.38; 14.89) | < 0.001 | 4.49 | (− 0.50; 9.49) | 0.078 |
| Quadratic term | − 0.24 | (− 0.38; − 0.11) | < 0.001 | − 0.12 | (− 0.24; 0.01) | 0.071 |
| Model 2 | ||||||
| Linear term | 5.93 | (1.75; 10.11) | 0.006 | 2.88 | (− 1.99; 7.76) | 0.244 |
| Quadratic term | − 0.15 | (− 0.26; − 0.046) | 0.005 | − 0.08 | (− 0.20;0.05) | 0.212 |
| Wrong | ||||||
| Model 1 | ||||||
| Linear term | 0.13 | (− 0.07; 0.34) | 0.200 | − 0.40 | (− 0.92; 0.12) | 0.13 |
| Quadratic term | − 0.004 | (− 0.01; 0.0015) | 0.161 | – | – | – |
| Model 2 | ||||||
| Linear term | 0.18 | − 0.03; 0.39) | 0.092 | − 0.34 | (− 0.87; 0.20) | 0.21 |
| Quadratic term | − 0.005 | (− 0.01; 0.004) | 0.073 | – | – | – |
| Blank | ||||||
| Model 1 | ||||||
| Linear term | − 10.26 | (− 16.12; − 4.41) | < 0.001 | 0.47 | (− 0.52; 1.46) | 0.35 |
| Quadratic term | 0.26 | (0.11; 0.41) | < 0.001 | – | – | – |
| Model 2 | ||||||
| Linear term | − 7.21 | (− 12.64; − 1.77) | 0.010 | 0.52 | (− 0.51; 1.55) | 0.32 |
| Quadratic term | 0.19 | (0.049; 0.32) | 0.008 | – | – | – |
| Exposition: TFA | ||||||
| Correct | ||||||
| Model 1 | 0.29 | (− 0.26; 0.84) | 0.30 | 0.13 | (− 0.36; 0.63) | 0.60 |
| Model 2 | 0.20 | (− 0.23; 0.62) | 0.36 | − 0.04 | (− 0.53; 0.46) | 0.89 |
| Wrong | ||||||
| Model 1 | 0.00 | (− 0.02; 0.02) | 0.80 | 0.27 | (− 0.11; 0.66) | 0.16 |
| Model 2 | − 0.00 | (− 0.02; 0.02) | 0.83 | 0.25 | (− 0.16; 0.65) | 0.23 |
| Blank | ||||||
| Model 1 | − 0.34 | (− 0.95; 0.27) | 0.28 | − 0.41 | (− 1.14; 0.33) | 0.28 |
| Model 2 | − 0.26 | (− 0.81; 0.28) | 0.34 | − 0.21 | (− 0.99; 0.57) | 0.59 |
Model 1: crude model. Model 2: adjusted for age, gender, course grade average, admission grade
Pearson risk attitude (PRA), ambiguity aversion in medicine (AA-Med), and of Tolerance for ambiguity (TFA), respectively
Items in bold reached statistical significance