In addition, sample education calls between the patient and the educator were taped during the initial phases of the study for feedback and quality assurance.
This finding could suggest that in our observational sample, education on rounds occurred away from the bedside, and consequently may not be focused on physical diagnosis or inclusive of patient participation.
In our sample, education, civil status, employment status, GAF, Body Mass Index in adulthood, Intelligence Quotient, current depressive symptoms, antidepressant treatment, and history of childhood psychiatric care did not differ between the victims and non-victims groups.
Age was dichotomized based on median age of the sample, education was dichotomized as < or ≥4-year college degree, and cultural affiliation was classified as Deaf community, hearing community, both communities, and neither community.
In terms of education levels, all the sampled respondents attained formal education and 43.6% had attained secondary school education.
Eve and Belhadi (2008) sampled Texas higher education faculty who had recently taught human evolution.
A survey of 300 households randomly sampled indicated that higher education greatly influenced the households' WTP decisions.
Approximately 27.0% of the population sampled had no formal education.
There were no significant differences between the samples in education or income; however, women from the TBTC sample were significantly younger (25.55 vs. 28.16 years; p < 0.001) and had fewer children (1.54 vs. 1.70; p = 0.05).
The sample's education level is higher than the 2011 published Beijing average education level which shows that 20.56% of the Beijing population have a bachelor's degree (Chen et al. [2006]).
