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Table 1 Participant demographics

From: Student empathy levels across 12 medical and health professions: an interventional study

Variable

Descriptor

Frequency

Percentage

Gender

Female

226

77.1

Male

67

22.9

University

Monash

230

78.5

ECU

38

13.0

UniSA

23

7.8

Deakin

2

0.7

Student course

Nursing

59

20.1

Paramedic

55

18.8

Dietetics

47

16

Occupational Therapy

29

9.9

Nursing/paramedics

27

9.2

Medicine

18

6.1

Radiography

17

5.8

Radiation therapy

14

4.8

Midwifery

11

3.8

Physiotherapy

8

2.7

Biomedical

5

1.7

Podiatry

3

1

Year level

Year 1

123

42.0

Year 2

81

27.6

Year 3

54

18.4

Year 4

27

9.2

Year 5

8

2.7