Research Article
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Smoking Behaviours among Physicians Specializing in Public Health: A Multicentre Study
Table 1
Characteristics of the sample.
| | Sociodemographic variables | Frequencies
(%) | Nonsmokers
(%row) | Current smokers
(%row) | value |
| | Age | | | | | | <30 | 141 (36.3) | 105 (74.5) | 36 (25.5) | | | ≥30 | 247 (63.7) | 202 (81.8) | 45 (18.22) | | | Gender | | | | | | F | 247 (63.7) | 207 (83.8) | 40 (16.2) | | | M | 130 (34.5) | 96 (73.8) | 34 (26.2) | | | Year of attendance | | | | | | 1st | 104 (27.6) | 80 (76.9) | 24 (23.1) | | | 2nd | 101 (26.8) | 82 (81.2) | 19 (18.8) | | | 3rd | 88 (23.3) | 74 (84.1) | 14 (15.9) | | | 4th | 84 (22.3) | 67 (79.8) | 17 (20.2) | | | Macroarea | | | | | | North | 178 (45.9) | 142 (79.8) | 36 (20.2) | | | Centre | 113 (29.1) | 95 (84.1) | 18 (15.9) | | | South | 97 (25) | 70 (72.2) | 27 (27.8) | |
| | Total | 388 (100) | | 81 (20.9) | |
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(level of significance); value concerns the difference between smokers and nonsmokers for each sociodemographic variable considered.
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