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Table 6 Comparison of final year undergraduate medicine, pharmacy and nursing students with regards to their interest in studying CAM and type of preferred module using Fisher’s exact two –tailed test

From: Exploring self-use, attitude and interest to study complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among final year undergraduate medical, pharmacy and nursing students in Sierra Leone: a comparative study

Interest in studying CAM

Medicine N = 44

Pharmacy N = 11

Nursing N = 9

Total N = 64

P-value

Yes n(%)

32 (72.7)

10 (90.9)

7 (77.8)

49 (76.6)

0.489

No n(%)

12 (27.3)

1 (9.1)

2 (22.2)

15 (23.4)

If yes, type of preferred module

Type of module

N = 32

N = 10

N = 7

N = 49

 

Compulsory

7 (21.9)

0 (0.0)

2 (28.6)

9 (18.4)

0.221

Elective

25 (78.1)

10 (100.0)

5 (71.4)

40 (81.6)