Research Article
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Smoking Behaviours among Physicians Specializing in Public Health: A Multicentre Study
Table 3
Results of the binary logistic regression analysis for the outcome “being current smokers.” Dependent variable: “being current smokers.” Independent variable: age, gender, year of attendance, macroregion (south), macro-region (north), macroregion (centre), “should HPs get specific training on cessation techniques?”; “do HPs serve as role models for their patients and the public?”; “should HPs regularly advise smokers to quit chewing tobacco/smoking cigar or pipe?”; “do HPs have a role in giving advice or information about smoking cessation to patients?”.
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Hosmer and Lemeshow Test: . Reference group; **Hosmer-Lemeshow procedure (Hosmer and Lemeshow 1989) [15] (only covariates having a value <0.25 at univariate analysis were introduced into the models). All variables were transformed into binary ones. Age: <30 versus ≥30 (because the possible answers were 25–29 or ≥30); gender: female versus male; year of attendance: 1-2 years versus 3-4 years; macroregion: centre versus south and centre versus north; and all the others (should HPs get specific training on cessation techniques?; do HPs serve as role models for their patients and the public?; should HPs regularly advise smokers to quit chewing tobacco/smoking cigar or pipe?; do HPs have a role in giving advice or information about smoking cessation to patients?) as no versus yes. |