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. 2020 Sep 16;10(9):e039082. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039082

Table 2.

Scores for joining the pandemic emergency healthcare force as stated by medical students in reply to the question (the students were not shown the domains presented in this table)

Domain Question asked Median 25; 75 percentiles Mean P value; gender/study year
Care 92.8
I would like to help my fellow human beings 100 88; 100 0.001/0.068
Learn 84.7
I will be provided an opportunity to learn something 90 75; 100 ns/ns
Pride 79.0
I will take pride in contributing 83 66; 100 ns/ns
Team 73.3
I become a part of the doctoral fellowship 77 60; 100 ns/ns
Needed 73.4
I am informed that I am needed 75 60; 94 ns/0.053
Safety 71.7
Precautions have been taken to prevent me from getting infected during work 75 50; 99 0.024/0.085
Supervision 72.5
I will receive supervision in my work 75 55; 93 0.014/<0.001
Job 69.4
I develop my professional job profile 73 51; 93 0.030/0.003
Duty 60.1
It is expected from me 66 47; 80 ns/0.001
Salary 60.9
I get paid for my work 62 50; 84 ns/<0.001
History 50.9
I become part of a historic event 50 21; 76 0.060/ns

ns: p >0.1 in Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis test for gender and study year, respectively. Fifteen responders had missing data comprising 0.3% of all data. Imputations were omitted.

To what degree are the following statements important for you to join a national emergency preparedness workforce for a pandemic?

Scores were on a scale from 0 to 100.