Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the participants.
| Variable | Blended-learning group (N=569) | Pure e-learning group (N=563) | DF | χ2/ tc | P | ||
| Mean age (SDa), years | 41.67 (11.08) | 41.98 (9.58) | 1130 | 0.5 | .59 | ||
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≤29 years | 72 (12.7) | 55 (9.8) | 3 | 7.4 | .06 |
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30-39 years | 184 (32.3) | 182 (32.3) |
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40-49 years | 165 (29.0) | 200 (35.5) |
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≥50 years | 148 (26.0) | 126 (22.4) |
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| Gender, n (%) |
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Male | 291 (51.1) | 320 (56.8) | 1 | 3.7 | .06 | |
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Female | 278 (48.9) | 243 (43.2) |
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| Educational level, n (%) |
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Technical secondary school or belowb | 453 (79.6) | 435 (77.3) | 2 | 1.1 | .57 | |
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Junior college | 101 (17.8) | 109 (19.4) |
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Undergraduate or above | 15 (2.6) | 19 (3.4) |
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| Major, n (%) |
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Western medicine | 308 (54.9) | 346 (61.5) | 4 | 6.2 | .18 | |
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Nursing | 129 (23.0) | 113 (20.1) |
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Preventive medicine | 52 (9.3) | 40 (7.1) |
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Traditional Chinese medicine | 29 (5.2) | 31 (5.5) |
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Other | 43 (7.7) | 33 (5.9) |
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aSD: standard deviation.
bTechnical secondary school or below: illiterate or primary school, middle school, high school, or technical secondary school.
c χ2/ t: t test was used to compare the “mean age (SD)” between two groups with χ2test comparing the differences between two groups in other variables such as “age category,” “gender,” “educational level,” and “major.”