Table 1.
School, sex, year of program, and students’ mean Intolerance of Uncertainty score in a study of Australian chiropractic students
| Year of Program | Males/Females | % of respondents’ year |
IU score Males (0 to 60)(SD) |
IU score Females (0 to 60)(SD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st year MQ | 43/34 | c | 34.2 (8.0) | 31.7 (7.7) |
| MU | 31/45 | 62% | 30.9 (6.7) | 30.5 (7.7) |
| 2nd year MQ | 17/10 | c | 33.9 (8.2) | 26.8 (9.6) |
| MU | 17/33 | 46% | 34.1 (6.2) | 32.6 (8.5) |
| 3rd year MQ | 42/20 | c | 31.1 (7.8) | 31.2 (8.5) |
| MU | 19/22 | 62% | 28.3 (10.1) | 27.6 (8.3) |
| 4th year MQ | 34/25 | c | 28.4 (8.5) | 27.6 (8.1) |
| MU | 6/21 | 79% | 27.8 (9.7) | 26.1 (6.4) |
| 5th year MQ | 3/0 | c | 29.3 (8.6) | |
| MU | 12/10 | 55% | 28.0 (9.7) | 22.3 (3.6) |
| All Years MQ | 139/89 | 69% | 31.7 (8.3) | 29.2 (8.1) |
| MU | 85/131 | 44% | 30.2 (8.2) | 29.9 (8.3) |
cdenotes information not available because students were enrolled across differing years. IUS-12 Cronbach’s alpha was 0.87 (skewness 0.20 (SD 0.11), Kurtosis −0.59 (SD 0.23)0