Table 1.
Baseline demographic data of participants in the two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) groups.
| 2D (n = 16) |
3D (n = 15) |
p-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of medical studies [years], median (IQR) 1 | 4 (4.5–5) | 4 (4–5) | 0.470 |
| Sex, female:male | 10:6 | 4:11 | 0.073 |
| Handedness, right:left | 16:0 | 14:1 | 0.484 |
| Assisted in laparoscopic surgeries, yes:no | 6:10 | 5:10 | 1.000 |
| Box trainer experience, yes:no | 0:16 | 2:13 | 0.226 |
| Video game experience, yes:no | 5:11 | 6:9 | 0.716 |
| Played a musical instrument, yes:no | 7:9 | 5:10 | 0.716 |
| Virtual reality trainer experience, yes:no | 0:16 | 0:15 | 1.000 |
1 IQR: interquartile range. Mann–Whitney–U test was used for comparisons of ordinal data. Nominal data were compared using the Fisher exact test; p-Values < 0.05 were considered statistically significant.