Group randomized trial of teaching tobacco-cessation counseling to senior medical students: a peer role-play module versus a standardized patient module

Table 1 Student demographics (N = 113)

	Students taking the standardized patient (SP) module^a (N = 57)	Students taking the peer role-play module^b (N = 56)	Total (N = 113)	P-value*
Age	26.5 ± 3.0	25.9 ± 2.1	26.2 ± 2.6	0.23
Sex (male, %)	36 (63.2)	35 (62.5)	71 (62.8)	0.94
Smoking status (non-smoker, %)	48 (84.2)	48 (85.7)	96 (85.0)	0.74
Alcohol consumption (drinker, %)	50 (87.7)	49 (87.5)	99 (87.6)	0.12

Values are presented as mean ± SD or number (%)
^aOne-to-one communication training with direct oral feedback from the standardized patient
^bTraining with peer role-playing and mutual feedback
*Student t-test between the case group and the control group

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