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Table 1 Baseline demographics and clinical characteristics

From: Students’ attitudes, beliefs and perceptions surrounding 2SLGBTQIA + health education and inclusiveness in Canadian physiotherapy programs

Demographic/clinical characteristic

Total (n = 150)

Age, years (median, IQR)

24 (23 to 26)

Sex assigned at birth, no. (%)

 Male

34 (23%)

 Female

116 (77%)

 Intersex

0 (0%)

 Preferred not to disclose

0 (0%)

Sexual orientation, no. (%)

 Asexual

3 (2%)

 Bisexual

22 (15%)

 Gay

4 (3%)

 Heterosexual (straight)

106 (71%)

 Lesbian

11 (7%)

 Pansexual

3 (2%)

 Panromantic

1 (1%)

 Queer

8 (5%)

 Questioning

10 (7%)

 Preferred not to disclose

1 (1%)

Gender identity, no. (%)

 Man, or primarily masculine

35 (23%)

 Woman, or primarily feminine

109 (73%)

 Indigenous or other cultural gender minority (e.g., Two-Spirit)

0 (0%)

 Neither man, nor woman (e.g., gender diverse, gender fluid, non-binary, agender)

6 (4%)

 Transgender man

0 (0%)

 Transgender woman

0 (0%)

 Preferred not to disclose

0 (0%)

Race, no. (%)

 Arab

4 (3%)

 Black

2 (1%)

 Chinese

13 (9%)

 Filipino

1 (1%)

 Japanese

0 (0%)

 Jewish

1 (1%)

 Korean

0 (0%)

 Latin American

2 (1%)

 South Asian (e.g., East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, etc.)

6 (4%)

 Southeast Asian (e.g., Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai, etc.)

2 (1%)

 West Asian

0 (0%)

 White

121 (81%)

 Mixed race

8 (5%)

 Preferred not to disclose

0 (0%)

Ethnicity, no. (%)

 African – Central or West (including, but not limited to Liberian, Nigerian, Senegalese)

0 (0%)

 African – Northern (including, but not limited to Egyptian, Libyan, Tunisian)

1 (1%)

 African – Southern or Eastern (including, but not limited to Kenyan, South African, Ugandan)

1 (1%)

 American

1 (1%)

 Asian – South (including, but not limited to Punjabi, Sri Lankan, Tamil)

9 (6%)

 Asian – East or Southeast (including, but not limited to Burmese, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Mien, Singaporean, Thai, Vietnamese)

13 (9%)

 Canadian

121 (81%)

 Caribbean (including, but not limited to Afro-Caribbean, Asian-Caribbean, Latinx-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean)

4 (3%)

 European – British (eg, English, Irish, Scottish)

33 (22%)

 European – French (eg, Breton, French)

4 (3%)

 European – Western (including, but not limited to Austrian, German, Slovenian)

13 (9%)

 European – Northern (including, but not limited to Danish, Finnish, Swedish)

2 (1%)

 European – Eastern (including, but not limited to Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian)

13 (9%)

 European – Southern (including, but not limited to Greek, Italian, Spanish)

13 (9%)

 Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, Métis, Native American)

3 (2%)

 Latin, Central and South American (including, but not limited to Brazilian, Chilean, Mexican)

0 (0%)

 Middle Eastern (e.g., Afghan, Iranian, Iraqi, Israeli, Lebanese)

10 (7%)

 Oceania (Australian and New Zealand)

0 (0%)

 Pacific Islands (Fijian, Hawaiian, Samoan)

0 (0%)

 Québécois(e)

3 (2%)

 Preferred not to disclose

0 (0%)

Religion, no. (%)

 No religion

62 (41%)

 Agnostic

17 (11%)

 Atheist

8 (5%)

 Buddhist

1 (1%)

 Christian

44 (29%)

 Muslim

7 (5%)

 Jewish

6 (4%)

 Hellenistic

0 (0%)

 Hindu

2 (1%)

 Traditional or folk religion, Folk religion, Spiritist

3 (2%)

 Preferred not to disclose

2 (1%)

University, no. (%)

 Dalhousie University

7 (5%)

 McGill University

14 (9%)

 McMaster University

13 (9%)

 Queen’s University

8 (5%)

 Université de Montréal

0 (0%)

 Université de Sherbrooke

0 (0%)

 Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

0 (0%)

 Université d’Ottawa

2 (1%)

 Université Laval

14 (9%)

 University of Alberta

5 (3%)

 University of British Columbia

16 (11%)

 University of Manitoba

6 (4%)

 University of Saskatchewan

7 (5%)

 University of Toronto

8 (5%)

 Western University

50 (33%)