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. 2009 Aug 18;7:74. doi: 10.1186/1478-4491-7-74

Table 1.

Description of the student sample

Number Average age Female Married
(de facto relationship)
Have children Foreign ancestry Rural background*
Medicine 43 25.2 22 (51%) 6 (14%) 0 (0%) 22 (51%) 10 (23%)

Nursing 46 27.8 38 (83%) 13 (28%) 15 (33%) 8 (17%) 41 (89%)

Allied health 32 25.5 18 (56%) 3 (9%) 4 (13%) 9 (28%) 20 (63%)

*Rural background was defined as town of population less than 100 000.