Tobacco Use among Health Care Workers in Southwestern Saudi Arabia

Table 1

Multivariate analysis, adjusted odds ratio (aOR), and antecedent 95% confidence intervals (CI) of potential risk factors determining smoking habit among health care workers in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

Variable	aOR	95% Confidence interval
		Upper	Lower
Age group: 30+ years versus less than 30	1.112	0.778	2.625
Gender*: males versus females	3.081	2.004	4.739
Nationality: Saudi versus non-Saudi	1.259	0.824	1.924
Place of work: hospital versus primary health care	1.427	0.884	2.302
Having a postgraduate Degree: yes versus no	0.845	0.514	1.389
Place of birth: city versus village	0.746	0.521	1.067
Parental smoking*: yes versus no	1.540	1.040	2.278

∗Significant (𝑃< 0.05).