Table 4.
Correlations between students’ views of the importance of pharmacy practice courses and demographic variables
| Variable | Participants' responses |
Odds Ratio (95% confidence interval) | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (%) | No (%) | |||
| Gender | 0.088 | |||
| Male | 71 (93.4) | 5 (6.6) | 0.27 (0.06-1.21) | |
| Female | 131 (94.2) | 8 (5.8) | Reference | |
| Age (yr) | 0.858 | |||
| <23 | 63 (94) | 4 (6) | 0.89 (0.24-3.18) | |
| ≥23 | 139 (93.9) | 9 (6.1) | Reference | |
| University sector | 0.067 | |||
| Private | 83 (96.5) | 3 (3.5) | 0.21 (0.04-1.11) | |
| Public | 119 (92.2) | 10 (7.8) | Reference | |
| Cumulative grade point average | 0.997 | |||
| <2.8 | 50 (100.0) | 0 | 0.1 (0.04-0.89) | |
| ≥2.8 | 152 (92.1) | 13 (7.9) | Reference | |
| Training/clerkship experience | 0.237 | |||
| Yes | 171 (93.4) | 12 (6.6) | 0.26 (0.02-2.4) | |
| No | 31 (96.9) | 1 (3.1) | Reference | |
The overall predictive accuracy was 94%. Omnibus tests of model coefficients: chi-square=12.556, P<0.05. -2 log likelihood=85.59, Nagelkerke R-squared=0.155. Hosmer and Lameshow test: chi-square value=10.164, P>0.05.