Table 5.

Logistic regression analysis between career choice motivations and the understanding of professionalism in first-year medical students (N=843)

Career choice motivation	Compassion	Respectfulness	Collaboration	Integrity	Accountability	Pursuit of excellence	Fair and ethical stewardship of healthcare resources
	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Interested in the health sciences	1.43 (1.07 to 1.92)*	1.06 (0.68 to 1.63)	0.97 (0.66 to 1.42)	0.84 (0.63 to 1.12)	1.19 (0.84 to 1.68)	1.08 (0.80 to 1.44)	1.24 (0.68 to 2.26)
Income and social status	0.87 (0.65 to 1.16)	0.82 (0.53 to 1.28)	0.84 (0.57 to 1.23)	0.91 (0.68 to 1.21)	1.06 (0.75 to 1.50)	1.04 (0.77 to 1.39)	0.49 (0.27 to 0.91)*
Advocating altruism	1.32 (0.98 to 1.78)	1.39 (0.90 to 2.15)	1.46 (0.99 to 2.13)	1.20 (0.90 to 1.61)	0.99 (0.70 to 1.40)	0.91 (0.67 to 1.22)	0.50 (0.26 to 0.96)*
Family member in healthcare	0.86 (0.63 to 1.19)	1.10 (0.68 to 1.79)	1.40 (0.92 to 2.11)	0.87 (0.64 to 1.20)	1.04 (0.71 to 1.52)	1.11 (0.80 to 1.53)	1.32 (0.70 to 2.48)
Parents’ expectations or illness in the family	0.85 (0.60 to 1.21)	0.91 (0.53 to 1.57)	1.57 (1.01 to 2.44)*	1.24 (0.88 to 1.74)	1.12 (0.74 to 1.70)	1.11 (0.78 to 1.58)	1.09 (0.53 to 2.21)

*p<0.05; career choice motivations, individual characteristics and family characteristics were included in the regression analysis.