Table 4.
Ranking of the COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on Graduate Schoolinga.a
What about your graduate schooling has been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, if any? rank 1–5, 1 being most impacted, 5 being least impacted.
| Characteristic | Overall N = 222 |
N | MS N = 131 |
DNP N = 72 |
PhD N = 19 |
p-Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balancing work-family-school | 2 (1, 4) | 206 | 2 (1, 3) | 3 (1, 4) | 2 (1, 4) | 0.313 |
| Finances | 3 (2, 4) | 201 | 3 (2, 4) | 4 (2, 4) | 3 (3, 4) | 0.875 |
| Didactic course work | 3 (2, 4) | 201 | 3 (2, 4) | 3 (2, 4) | 3 (2, 3) | 0.772 |
| Clinical rotations | 3 (1, 5) | 191 | 3 (1, 5) | 4 (2, 5) | 5 (2, 5) | 0.056 |
| Attending Synchronous Classes | 4 (2, 5) | 194 | 4 (3, 5) | 3 (1, 5) | 3 (2, 4) | 0.061 |
a
The median rank (25th quantile, 75th quantile) is reported for the overall sample, and stratified by graduate program. Kruskal-Wallis test was used to test for differences between graduate programs.