Table 1.
Basic characteristics among Bulgarian MD students and Bulgarian non-MD students.
| Basic Characteristics | MD Students (n = 300) |
Non-MD Students (n = 300) |
Statistics * | df | p-Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, Years, Mean ± SD | 21.5 ± 2.0 | 20.8 ± 1.6 | 4.18 | 598 | <0.001 |
| Sex, n (%) | |||||
| Male | 112 (37.3) | 165 (55.0) | 18.84 | 1 | <0.001 |
| Female | 188 (62.7) | 135 (45.0) | |||
| Place of residence, n (%) | |||||
| Village | 20 (6.6) | 13 (4.3) | 8.20 | 3 | 0.042 |
| City, small | 29 (9.6) | 39 (13.0) | |||
| City, middle | 84 (28.0) | 59 (19.6) | |||
| City, large | 167 (55.8) | 189 (63.1) | |||
| Ethnicity, n (%) | |||||
| Bulgarian | 265 (88.4) | 291 (97.0) | 22.23 | 2 | <0.001 |
| Turkish | 25 (8.3) | 6 (2.0) | |||
| Unspecified | 10 (3.3) | 3 (1.0) | |||
| Religion, n (%) | |||||
| Eastern Orthodoxy | 200 (66.8) | 224 (74.8) | 16.8 | 3 | <0.001 |
| Atheism | 44 (14.6) | 40 (13.3) | |||
| Unspecified religion | 27 (9.0) | 28 (9.3) | |||
| Islam | 29 (9.6) | 8 (2.6) | |||
| Marital status, n (%) | |||||
| Married | 8 (2.6) | 6 (2.0) | 1.29 | 3 | 0.732 |
| Family life without marriage | 17 (5.6) | 14 (4.6) | |||
| Boyfriend/girlfriend | 127 (42.3) | 139 (46.3) | |||
| Single | 148 (49.5) | 141 (47.1) | |||
| Tobacco smoking, n (%) | |||||
| Yes | 72 (24.0) | 124 (41.3) | 20.49 | 1 | <0.001 |
| No | 228 (76.0) | 176 (58.7) | |||
| Frequency of alcohol consumption, n (%) | |||||
| 2–3 times per weeks | 12 (4.0) | 34 (11.3) | 22.73 | 2 | <0.001 |
| 2–3 times per months | 158 (52.7) | 183 (61.0) | |||
| Never | 130 (43.3) | 83 (27.7) | |||
Note: MD—Doctor of Medicine; df—degrees of freedom; SD—standard deviation. * Statistics = Chi-square test or t-test.