Table 1.

Respondents’ distributions (%) and comparisons of sociodemographic features and opinions to education in research during education among doctors in general practice and other specialties.

	General practice N = 784		Other specialties N = 3446		p Value
	N	%	n	%
Gendera					<0.001
Women	580	74.0	2151	62.4
Men	204	26.0	1295	37.6
Age groupsa					<0.001
<35	157	20.1	480	14.0
35‒44	206	26.4	764	22.3
45‒54	135	17.3	836	24.4
55‒64	190	24.4	927	27.1
65‒69	92	11.8	413	12.1
Interest in research work had some influence on studying medicine	158	20.2	1110	32.4	<0.001
Too little research education during medical studiesb	129	39.7	501	49.5	0.002
Opportunities to do research work had some influence on choosing specialty	81	10.4	1375	39.7	<0.001
Too little research education during specialization process	473	62.1	1591	46.8	<0.001

Organization of the alternatives for answers: far too little and too little combined, as well as appropriate amount, too much and far too much combined. Crosstabulation and chi-squared test were used in the analyses.

^aNot every respondent reported their age and gender (n = 12 in general practice and n = 68 in other specialties).

^bMost respondents did not answer this question.