Gender Effects on Physical Reactions of Health Science Students at First Encounter with Cadaver Using Pearson Chi-Square Test

In this study, the reactions of health science students at their first sight to cadaver examined. Two hundred and fifty undergraduate students of the Department of Anatomy from two universities in Nigeria (University of Ilorin, Ilorin and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso) studied for their physical and emotional reactions at their first encounter with cadaver. The data collected on these students are subjected to relevant statistical analysis and by Pearson Chi-Square test procedures it revealed that students` reactions in this regard are gender sensitive with female students being more susceptible to physical and emotional instability than their male counter parts.