TABLE 2.
Descriptive statistics for the student experience variables and differences between countries for each variable.
| Variable | Global (N = 344) | Italy (n = 102) | Austria (n = 47) | Romania (n = 64) | Israel (n = 40) | Poland (n = 91) | Country diff. p-value |
| Past experience variables | |||||||
| Formal caregiver to end-of-life clients (D) | 45 (13%) | 7 (7%) | 3 (6%) | 8 (13%) | 2 (5%) | 25 (28%) | <0.001 |
| Lost someone close to you in the last 2 years (D) | 140 (41%) | 45 (44%) | 19 (40%) | 22 (34%) | 16 (40%) | 38 (42%) | 0.808 |
| Course topics included in BA:1 | |||||||
| None (D) | 162 (47%) | 79 (78%) | 23 (49%) | 32 (50%) | 17 (43%) | 11 (12%) | <0.001 |
| Death Education (D) | 47 (14%) | 5 (5%) | 4 (9%) | 6 (9%) | 2 (5%) | 30 (33%) | <0.001 |
| Loss, Grief and Bereavement (D) | 102 (30%) | 13 (13%) | 7 (15%) | 9 (14%) | 5 (13%) | 68 (75%) | <0.001 |
| Palliative Care (D) | 34 (10%) | 5 (5%) | 3 (6%) | 3 (5%) | 4 (10%) | 19 (21%) | 0.001 |
| Arts Therapies (D) | 37 (11%) | 1 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (8%) | 20 (50%) | 11 (12%) | <0.001 |
| Psychodrama (D) | 85 (25%) | 10 (10%) | 18 (38%) | 20 (31%) | 8 (20%) | 29 (32%) | <0.001 |
| Read something about end-of-life, bereavement and/or palliative care: | |||||||
| None (D) | 130 (38%) | 58 (57%) | 19 (40%) | 16 (25%) | 14 (35%) | 23 (25%) | <0.001 |
| Scientific Journals (D) | 76 (22%) | 17 (17%) | 8 (17%) | 23 (36%) | 4 (10%) | 24 (26%) | 0.007 |
| Books (D) | 156 (45%) | 35 (34%) | 14 (30%) | 30 (47%) | 21 (53%) | 56 (62%) | <0.001 |
| Other (D) | 21 (6%) | 0 (0%) | 8 (17%) | 4 (6%) | 5 (13%) | 4 (4%) | 0.001 |
| Current experience variables | |||||||
| Terminal illness of someone close to you - currently (D) | 45 (13%) | 9 (9%) | 12 (26%) | 5 (8%) | 5 (13%) | 14 (15%) | 0.040 |
| MA: | <0.001 | ||||||
| Psychology | 273 (79%) | 102 (100%) | 47 (100%) | 62 (97%) | 0 (0%) | 62 (68%) | |
| Arts Therapies | 39 (11%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 39 (98%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Other | 30 (9%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (3%) | 1 (3%) | 27 (30%) | |
| Missing | 2 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (2%) | |
| Year of MA: | <0.001 | ||||||
| 1st (or 4th in Poland survey) | 111 (32%) | 9 (9%) | 14 (30%) | 29 (45%) | 39 (98%) | 20 (22%) | |
| 2nd (or 5th in Poland survey) | 233 (68%) | 93 (91%) | 33 (70%) | 35 (55%) | 1 (3%) | 71 (78%) | |
| Course topics included in MA: | |||||||
| None (D) | 148 (43%) | 44 (43%) | 22 (47%) | 49 (77%) | 1 (3%) | 32 (35%) | <0.001 |
| Death Education (D) | 58 (17%) | 30 (29%) | 4 (9%) | 2 (3%) | 0 (0%) | 22 (24%) | <0.001 |
| Loss, Grief and Bereavement (D) | 95 (28%) | 49 (48%) | 5 (11%) | 8 (13%) | 1 (3%) | 32 (35%) | <0.001 |
| Palliative Care (D) | 39 (11%) | 22 (22%) | 2 (4%) | 1 (2%) | 2 (5%) | 12 (13%) | <0.001 |
| Arts Therapies (D) | 53 (15%) | 2 (2%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 37 (93%) | 14 (15%) | <0.001 |
| Psychodrama (D) | 85 (25%) | 14/14%) | 21 (45%) | 10 (16%) | 11 (28%) | 29 (32%) | <0.001 |
The values reported in the table are frequency, (percentage) and p-values of the Chi-square test for each variable. For dummy variables (D) N (%) of Yes are reported.1N = 343 because one student from Romania did not answer this question.