Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents (N = 261).
| Variables | N (%) | Willingness to volunteer, N (%) |
P- value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Likely; 203 (77.8) | Unlikely; 58 (22.2) | |||
| 1. Gender | ||||
| Male | 109 (41.8) | 78 (71.6) | 31 (28.4) | 0.041 |
| Female | 152 (58.2) | 125 (82.2) | 27 (17.8) | |
| 2. Female respondents | ||||
| From MBBS | 70 (46.1) | 60 (85.7) | 10 (14.3) | 0.300 |
| From Nursing | 82 (53.9) | 65 (79.3) | 17 (20.7) | |
| 3. Age group | ||||
| Less than 20 | 13 (5.0) | 9 (69.2) | 4 (30.8) | |
| 20–23 | 133 (51.0) | 104 (78.2) | 29 (21.8) | 0.820 |
| 23–26 | 102 (39.1) | 79 (77.5) | 23 (22.5) | |
| More than 26 | 13 (5.0) | 11 (84.6) | 2 (15.4) | |
| 4. Educational program | ||||
| MBBS | 179 (68.6) | 138 (77.1) | 41 (22.9) | 0.695 |
| Nursing | 82 (31.4) | 65 (79.3) | 17 (20.7) | |
| 5. Year of study | ||||
| First year | 43 (16.5) | 24 (55.8) | 19 (44.2) | |
| Second year | 45 (17.2) | 35 (77.8) | 10 (22.2) | |
| Third year | 76 (29.1) | 64 (84.2) | 12 (15.8) | 0.003 |
| Fourth year | 61 (23.4) | 48 (78.7) | 13 (21.3) | |
| Fifth year | 36 (13.8) | 32 (88.9) | 4 (11.1) | |
| 6. Level of MBBS students | ||||
| Preclinical year | 70 (39.1) | 49 (70.0) | 21 (30.0) | 0.070 |
| Clinical year | 109 (60.9) | 89 (81.7) | 20 (18.3) | |
| 7. Status of MoE scholarship | ||||
| No MoE scholarship | 236 (90.4) | 183 (77.5) | 53 (22.5) | 0.779 |
| MoE scholarship | 25 (9.6) | 20 (80.0) | 5 (20.0) | |
| 8. Prior volunteering experience | ||||
| Yes | 92 (35.2) | 72 (78.3) | 20 (21.7) | 0.890 |
| No | 169 (64.8) | 131 (77.5) | 38 (22.5) | |
| 9. Past COVID-19 infection to them or their family member | ||||
| Yes | 83 (31.8) | 66 (79.5) | 17 (20.5) | 0.644 |
| No | 178 (68.2) | 137 (77.0) | 41 (23.0) | |
| 10. Full vaccination against COVID-19 | ||||
| Yes | 219 (83.9) | 172 (78.5) | 47 (21.5) | 0.499 |
| No | 42 (16.1) | 31 (73.8) | 11 (26.2) | |