Table 3.

Significance (P-value) of associations between selected survey responses, first-year medical students, Perelman School of Medicine (2015–2018)

	‘The anatomy lab experience changed how [I] feel about people with overweight/obesity’	‘The anatomy lab experience changed how [I] feel about [my] own weight’
Year	0.48	0.81
Age	0.10	0.46
Female	0.82	0.30
‘The anatomy lab experience changed how [I] feel about [my] own weight’	<0.0001	N/A
‘The anatomy lab experience changed how [I] feel about people with overweight/obesity’	N/A	<0.0001
‘Before the first day of anatomy lab, [I] had … seen a dead body’	0.16	0.13
‘The cadaver is a person who used to be alive’/‘The cadaver is tissue/an inanimate object/a specimen’	0.39	0.30
‘Overall the anatomy lab experience has been … ’ (Not at all and Somewhat positive vs. Very positive)	0.24	0.36
‘How upsetting was the first day of anatomy lab?’ (Not at all upsetting vs. Somewhat and Very upsetting)	0.62	0.17
‘How upsetting is anatomy lab now?’ (Not at all upsetting vs. Somewhat and Very upsetting)	0.13	0.08

All results are P-values from Chi-square or t-tests.