Evaluation of attitude to, knowledge of and barriers toward research among medical science students

Table 2 Comparison of mean (±SD) of research subjects for demographic characteristics

Variable		Attitude	Knowledge	Barrier
Sex	Male	69.86 ± 12.47	67.09 ± 21.56	75.79 ± 14.57
Sex	Female	69.58 ± 12.48	72.97 ± 20.54	74.78 ± 15.82
P value		0.010*	0.354	0.542
Marital status	Single	69.73 ± 12.37	70.90 ± 20.26	74.98 ± 15.23
Marital status	Couple	66.12 ± 12.54	71.51 ± 23.61	76.25 ± 15.72
P value		0.020*	0.814	0.507
Field of education	Medical	70.90 ± 5.04^a	72.36 ± 18.47^a	75.14 ± 16.14^a
	Dental	67.84 ± 11.39^a	64.77 ± 22.36^b	74.61 ± 13.4^a
	Pharmacy	68.23 ± 0.82^a	75.18 ± 20.69^a	76.13 ± 16.7^a
P value		0.106	<0.001*	0.729
Level of education	Undergraduate students	70.27 ± 12.00	75.18 ± 14.56	71.24 ± 20.88
Level of education	Postgraduate students	65.57 ± 13.06	75.24 ± 17.35	70.60 ± 21.36
P value		0.001*	0.974	0.791

In the case of field of education, different letters in each column show significant differences between the fields (Tukey HSD test).
p < 0.05 is significant*.

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