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Total 7th year
students
inscribed
response rate
34 Making General Practice Attractive: Encouraging GP attraction and Retention KCE Reports 90
3.4.2.2 Participants
During a 2-month period (half December 2007 – half February 2008) the questionnaire
was distributed among all seventh year students of all seven Belgian universities offering
masters level (KULeuven, UA, UCL, UGent, ULB, ULG and VUB).
The VUB and ULG took care of the distribution themselves. At the KULeuven, UA,
UCL, UGent and ULB a researcher of the team communicated with the students about
the research, asked for their participation, made clear that the participation was on a
voluntary basis and that anonymity was guaranteed. The response rate was between 90
and 39 % according to the universities. The initial balance between genders in the
population of students was 40.9% men (n=314) and 59.1% women (n=454). The
response rates in each gender group were respectively 52.5% for men (n=165) and
69.6% for women (n=316).
Table 1 shows the overall response rate equal to 62,9% (from 39.2 to 89.6% according
to the universities). KUL and UCL are the universities that are most represented
(respectively 30,6% and 22,4%).
Table 1: Response rate for each university
KUL UA UCL UGent ULB ULG VUB TOTAL
n 218 48 157 122 102 92 29 768
(%) (100) (100) (100) (100) (100) (100) (100) (100)
n 148 43 108 87 40 38 19 483
° in correspondence
with the 7th year
students inscribed
in a university (%)
° in correspondence
with the total
response rate (%)
(67,89) (89,58) (68,79) (71,31) (39,22) (41,30) (65,52) (62,89)
(30,64) (8,90) (22,36) (18,01) (8,28) (7,87) (3,93) (100,00)
Table 2 shows the response rate by specialty choice and gender. Nearly all students
(87,2%) already knew for certain their further career path: 29,3% opted for general
practice and 58,0% for other specialties.
Table 2: Response rate by specialty choice and gender
GP without doubt
other specialty
without doubt
in doubt about
further career path
TOTAL
respondents man woman man woman man woman
n n N n n n n
(%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)
KUL 148 14 37 35 47 6 8
(100) (9,5) (25,10) (23,6) (31,8) (4,1) (5,4)
UA 43 4 3 12 17 3 3
(100) (9,3) (7,0) (27,9) (39,5) (7,0) (7,0)
UCL 108 5 28 26 40 2 5
(100) (4,7) (26,2) (24,3) (37,4) (1,9) (4,7)
UGent 87 7 21 15 39 2 2
(100) (8,0) (24,1) (17,2) (44,8) (2,3) (2,3)
ULB 40 0 5 10 12 4 7
(100) (0,00) (12,8) (25,6) (30,8) (10,3) (17,9)
ULg 38 3 8 6 9 2 7
(100) (7,9) (21,1) (15,8) (23,7) (5,3) (18,4)
VUB 19 2 4 4 8 1 0
(100) (10,5) (21,1) (21,1) (42,1) (5,3) (0,00)
TOTAL 483 35 106 108 172 20 32
(100) (7,3) (22,0) (22,4) (35,6) (4,1) (6,6)