Table 2.
Use of social media for professional development according to demographic variables for the 231 respondents.
| Variables | N | Used social media for professional development n (%)a |
P-value | ||
| Yes (n=163) | No (n=68) | ||||
| Age | |||||
| 20-30 years | 111 | 84 (75.7) | 27 (24.3) | .35 | |
| 31-40 years | 67 | 46 (68.7) | 21 (31) |
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| 41-50 years | 45 | 28 (62.2) | 17 (38) |
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| > 50 years | 8 | 5 (62.5) | 3 (38) |
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| Gender | |||||
| Female | 149 | 98 (65.8) | 51 (34.2) | .03b | |
| Male | 82 | 65 (79.3) | 17 (21) |
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| Highest level of education | |||||
| Bachelor’s degree or below | 111 | 79 (70.3) | 34 (29.7) | .83 | |
| Master’s degree or higher | 120 | 84 (70.8) | 34 (29.2) |
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| Type of work | |||||
| Academic only | 51 | 33 (64.7) | 18 (35) | .58 | |
| Clinical only | 109 | 76 (69.7) | 33 (31.2) |
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| Academic and clinical | 52 | 40 (76.9) | 12 (23) |
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| Other | 19 | 14 (68.4) | 5 (21) |
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aPercentages are calculated relative to the total number within each row of data.
bStatistically significant.