Table 2 Hospital and community pharmacists background
From: Analysis of factors affecting pharmacists' ability to identify and solve problems
Hospital pharmacist | Community pharmacist | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Group with experience presenting at academic conferences (N = 152) | Group without experience presenting at academic conferences (N = 148) | P value | Group with experience presenting at academic conferences (N = 41) | Group without experience presenting at academic conferences (N = 259) | P value | |
Sex (male/female)b | 81/71 | 50/98 | < 0.001a | 21/20 | 92/167 | 0.054 |
Age [Age 20 s/30 s/40 s/50 s/60 s/age over 70 s]b | 15/75/32/25/5/0 | 32/60/28/22/6/0 | 0.15 | 2/18/12/4/3/2 | 34/93/74/44/13/1 | 0.54 |
Region of residence (Hokkaido region /Tohoku region/ Kanto region / Chubu region / Kinki region / Chugoku region / Shikoku region / Kyushu region)b | 9/5/ 43/35/25/ 8/2/25 | 9/3/ 49/29/26/ 4/5/23 | 0.77 | 3/0/ 12/9/9/ 2/0/6 | 6/6/ 102/37/47/ 21/9/31 | 0.28 |
Undergraduate courses (6-year course /4-year course)b | 65/87 | 73/75 | 0.25 | 14/27 | 91/168 | 0.90 |
Highest educational background (bachelor's/doctoral or master’s degree)b | 118/34 | 136/12 | < 0.001a | 30/11 | 237/22 | < 0.001a |
Facility size (Hospital pharmacist: large hospital/ small- and medium-sized hospitals, Community pharmacist: pharmacy chains or DS/small- and medium-sized community pharmacies)b | 85/67 | 40/108 | < 0.001a | 22/19 | 132/127 | 0.75 |
Current position: Management, etc. (with/without position)b | 60/92 | 42/106 | 0.04a | 19/22 | 102/157 | 0.40 |
Life events experienced (quartile range)c | 2(1–4) | 2(1–4) | 0.49 | 3(1–4) | 3(1–5) | 0.41 |