Table 1 Characteristics of Japanese Society for Hygiene (JSH) councilors and junior members who responded unambiguouslya to the questionnaire survey
Participant characteristics | Councilors | Junior members | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | ||
Gender | |||||
Male | 171 | 90.0 | 60 | 50.4 | <0.01* |
Female | 19 | 10.0 | 58 | 49.6 | |
Qualifications | |||||
Physician, dentist | 120 | 67.0 | 56 | 50.0 | <0.01* |
Nurse, public health nurse | 1 | 0.6 | 8 | 7.1 | |
Pharmacist | 10 | 5.6 | 5 | 4.5 | |
Nutritionist | 2 | 1.1 | 7 | 6.3 | |
Other | 46 | 25.7 | 36 | 32.1 | |
Affiliated institution | |||||
University Medical School | 98 | 55.1 | 63 | 56.3 | 0.19 |
University, non-Medical School | 50 | 28.1 | 26 | 23.2 | |
Medical Institution, non-University | 4 | 2.2 | 7 | 6.3 | |
Research Institute | 21 | 11.7 | 9 | 8.0 | |
Government Institution | 5 | 2.8 | 7 | 6.3 | |
Position | |||||
Professor | 116 | 61.7 | 11 | 13.1 | <0.01* |
Associate professor | 24 | 12.8 | 16 | 19.0 | |
Assistant professor | 11 | 5.9 | 21 | 25.0 | |
Senior researcher | 0 | 0.0 | 30 | 35.7 | |
Laboratory chief | 1 | 0.5 | 4 | 4.8 | |
Other | 31 | 16.5 | 31 | 36.9 | |
Member of an Ethical Review Board (now or in the past) | |||||
Yes | 15 | 11.6 | 12 | 9.9 | 0.81 |
No | 114 | 88.4 | 109 | 90.1 | |