Sociodemographic and Academic Characteristics of the Admission Profile of Students, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Costa Rica 2007-2014

Autor: Andrea López-Soto, Adrián Gómez-Fernández, Cristina Castro-Sancho, Natalia Gutiérrez-Marín
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Odovtos-International Journal of Dental Sciences; Vol. 25 No. 1 (2023): (January-April) Odovtos-International Journal of Dental Sciences ; 97-119
Odovtos International Journal of Dental Sciences; Vol. 25 Núm. 1 (2023): (January-April) Odovtos-International Journal of Dental Sciences ; 97-119
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Odovtos International Journal of Dental Sciences, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 119-97, Published: APR 2023
ISSN: 2215-3411
1659-1046
DOI: 10.15517/ijds.2023
Popis: The objective of this research was to determine some of the sociodemographic and academic characteristics of the students who entered the Dentistry career in the period 2007 to 2014. Data was collected from 673 student files. The variables considered were sex, admission age, marital status, children, nationality, place of origin, high school of origin, and admission exam score. The data was obtained from the database of the Student Applications System, the physical files, and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Costa Rica. Descriptive statistics were performed, establishing the absolute and relative frequency of the variables. The Mann-Whitney test was used to determine if there were statistically significant differences between the admission exam and the established sociodemographic variables (p
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