Table 3.
Health care professionals increase their professional network after a 6 week online course
| I have increased my professional network | I have collaborated with other students / used discussion forums and Facebook | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occupation / response | Strongly agree | Agree | Total | Strongly agree | Agree | Total |
| Doctor | 17%a | 40% | 56% | 13% | 29% | 42% |
| Nurse | 17% | 29% | 45% | 12% | 30% | 42% |
| Midwife | 25% | 25% | 50% | 25% | 0%s | 25% |
| Nutritionist | 19% | 41% | 60% | 6% | 41% | 47% |
| Technician | 5% | 32% | 38% | 5% | 38% | 43% |
| Industry | 14% | 33% | 47% | 10% | 16% | 25% |
| Research/ academic |
15% | 29% | 43% | 9% | 28% | 36% |
| Med. stud. | 16% | 30% | 45% | 13% | 24% | 37% |
| Life.Sci. student | 16% | 31% | 47% | 13% | 19% | 31% |
| Average | 16% | 32% | 48% | 12% | 25% | 36% |
| Developing n = 453 |
19% | 41% | 60% | 13% | 34% | 43% |
| Developed n = 392 |
12% | 27% | 38% | 8% | 24% | 32% |
aNumbers are reduced to two significant figures