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Table 2 Mean scores* for and correlation coefficients ¶ between Deans' and students' responses to statements concerning health promotion at medical school.

From: Personal health promotion at US medical schools: a quantitative study and qualitative description of deans' and students' perceptions

 

Deans' mean score

Students' mean score

r

p-value

Overall, our medical school encourages students to lead healthy lives.

1.8

2.5

.87

.0002

Our medical school curriculum emphasizes preventive medicine in medical practice.

1.9

2.3

.51

.0912

Our medical school encourages extracurricular activities that promote medical students' health.

2.1

2.7

.54

.0681

Our medical school tries to minimize student stress.

1.8

3.0

.91

<.0001

Our medical school has a good system to help students cope with stress.

2.0

2.9

.70

.0110

Our medical school encourages students' healthy eating.

2.3

3.1

.74

.0064

Our medical school encourages students to exercise.

2.1

2.9

.48

.1139

  1. *Responses were scored 1 for "strongly agree", continuing to 5 for "strongly disagree". Therefore higher scores indicate less agreement with the statement.
  2. ¶ Spearman's correlation coefficients.