(1) Diagnosis | (2) Prognosis | |||
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Type of reason | Medical students M1/M2‡ | Law students L1/L2‡ | Medical students M1/M2‡ | Law students L1/L2‡ |
***(χ2)p ≤0.001; **(χ2)p ≤0.01; and *(χ2)p ≤0.05 for comparison between all law and all medical students. | ||||
‡No indication means that no significant difference existed between the two groups of students from the same faculty (p≤0.05). | ||||
Group M1 : 64 medical students at the end of their 5th year in 1996. | ||||
Group M2 : 63 medical students at the beginning of their 5th year in 1996. | ||||
Group L1 : 75 first to fourth year law students from an “international law” lecture in 1996. | ||||
Group L2 : 93 mostly first year law students from a “law and medicine” lecture in 1996. | ||||
Patient autonomy | 72.4*** | 39.9*** | 62.2*** 71.9/52.4 p=0.02 | 39.9*** |
Informing is best | 24.4*** | 44.0*** | 21.3** | 33.9** |
Required by the law | 2.4* | 8.3* | 0.8** | 6.5** |
Always tell the truth | 4.7*** | 24.4*** | 3.9*** | 20.2*** |
Total number | n=127 | n=168 | n=127 | n=168 |