Medical Students’ Perception of the Educational Environment at College of Medicine: A Prospective Study with a Review of Literature

Table 4

Mean (SD) DREEM scores as per demographic characteristics of the participants.

Variable	n	Mean (SD)
		Overall		SPL		SPT		SASP		SPA		SSSP
	200	129.64	31.81	30.16	8.95	28.51	7.77	21.22	5.91	31.35	8.47	18.39	4.84
Gender
Male	142	129.9	29.6	29.6	8.7	28.5	7.1	21.5	5.5	31.8	8.0	18.5	4.6
Female	78	129.1	35.7	31.3	9.4	28.4	8.9	20.7	6.6	30.6	9.3	18.1	5.3
Phase
Phase II	144	125.3	28.7	29.0	8.3	27.3	7.2	20.5	5.6	30.2	7.9	18.3	4.2
Phase III	76	137.9	35.7	32.4	9.7	30.7	8.3	22.6	6.3	33.5	9.2	18.7	5.8
Marital status
Single	214	130.4	31.1	30.3	8.8	28.7	7.6	21.3	5.8	31.6	8.3	18.4	4.8
Married	4	124.8	10.5	30.0	2.9	26.5	4.9	20.3	2.2	29.3	5.0	18.7	0.5
Divorced	2	60.0	72.1	11.0	14.1	13.0	18.4	10.0	14.1	14.0	19.8	12.0	5.6
Year of study
Third year	35	123.5	26.2	28.9	7.2	26.5	7.3	19.7	6.1	29.9	7.6	18.5	3.5
Fourth year	109	125.8	29.6	29.0	8.7	27.6	7.2	20.8	5.4	30.3	8.0	18.1	4.4
Fifth year	49	135.3	37.4	31.4	10.6	30.4	8.7	22.4	6.4	32.8	9.9	18.3	6.0
Sixth year	27	142.6	32.5	34.3	7.5	31.2	7.6	23.0	6.3	34.9	7.7	19.2	5.5

The bold numbers represent the overall scores of the DREEM tool, as per the demographics of the participants.