Table 2.

Perceived impacts of climate change from medical, public health and nursing students.

Perceived Impacts of Climate Change	Medical (n = 644)		Public Health (n = 430)		Nursing (n = 313)		All (n = 1387)		p
	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)
Climate change is controllable	418	64.9	321	74.7	196	62.6	935	67.4	<0.01
Overall, climate change is bad	546	84.8	359	83.5	253	80.8	1158	83.5	0.30
Climate change is bad for human health	575	89.3	381	88.6	266	85.0	1222	88.1	0.15
Climate change will be serious in my local community	576	89.4	368	85.6	282	90.1	1226	88.4	0.09
Climate change will be serious in China	619	96.1	413	96.1	298	95.2	1330	95.9	0.79
Climate change will be serious in the world	609	94.6	410	95.4	299	95.5	1318	95.0	0.76
Health consequences of climate change
Air quality-related illness	604	93.8	413	96.1	299	95.5	1316	94.9	0.22
Heat-related illness	596	92.6	407	94.9	283	90.4	1286	92.8	0.07
Disruption of health services by extreme weather events	585	90.8	396	92.1	282	90.1	1263	91.1	0.62
Cold-related illness	570	88.5	385	89.5	276	88.2	1231	88.8	0.82
Flooding-related displacement	550	85.5	375	87.4	259	82.8	1184	85.5	0.20
Illness related with shortage of water supply	556	86.5	352	82.2	269	86.2	1177	85.1	0.13
Vector-borne infectious disease	541	84.0	359	83.9	249	79.8	1149	83.0	0.23
Water-borne infectious disease	544	84.6	328	76.6	249	79.6	1121	81.0	<0.01
Other health impacts of climatic change	479	76.4	348	82.1	234	76.0	1061	78.1	0.06
Food-borne disease	472	73.4	250	58.1	226	72.2	948	68.4	<0.01
Mental health conditions	443	68.8	255	59.3	185	59.1	883	63.7	<0.01
Malnutrition	282	43.9	141	32.8	117	37.4	540	39.0	<0.01
Total score (Mean ± SD)	9.70 ± 2.39		9.36 ± 2.20		9.36 ± 2.27		9.52 ± 2.31		0.03