The Diversity Issue Revisited: International Students in Clinical Environment
Table 1
Characteristics of international and finnish students participating in english language taught degree program at 10 polytechnic faculties of health care in Finland.
Variable
International students
Finnish students
Age, years
āMean (range)
27.6 (20ā48)
25.2 (19ā53)
<0.001
Gender, male % ()
33.8 (49)
11.7 (11)
<0.001
Resided in Finland, years
āMean (range)
3.5 (0ā16)
22.0 (1ā42)
<0.001
Education, % ()
<0.001
āUpper secondary
47.7 (61)
81.1 (73)
āVocational
16.4 (21)
11.1 (10)
āAcademic degree
35.9 (46)
7.8 (7)
Weekly working hours
āMean (range)
17.7 (0ā40)
11.3 (0ā55)
<0.001
English skills, %, ()
0.27
āBasic or intermediate
18.0 (25)
23.9 (22)
āAdvanced
82.0 (114)
76.1 (70)
Finnish or Swedish skills, % ()
<0.001
āBasic
52.2 (70)
3.2 (3)
āIntermediate
35.1 (47)
3.2 (3)
āAdvanced
12.7 (17)
93.6 (87)
Feeling satisfied with life during the past year, % ()
<0.001
āVery often or often
57.0 (77)
84.0 (79)
āOccasionally or never
43.0 (58)
16.0 (15)
1Differences between the groups were compared with test or Fischer exact test in categorical variables and Mann-Whitney -test for nonnormally distributed continuous variables.