Health Behaviors among Male and Female University Students in Cambodia: A Cross-Sectional Survey
Table 3
Substance use among male and female university students in the study.
Variables
Frequency
Total n (%)
Males n (%)
Females n (%)
value
Current tobacco smokers
15 (1.1)
9 (1.3)
6 (0.9)
0.47
Experience of daily smoking for at least 30 days
8 (0.6)
6 (0.9)
2 (0.3)
0.16
Smoking in the past 3 months
16 (1.2)
14 (2.0)
2 (0.2)
0.002
Would you describe yourself as:
<0.001
Nondrinker
838 (61.7)
274 (39.7)
564 (84.3)
Occasional drinker
367 (27.0)
292 (42.3)
75 (11.2)
Regular drinker
154 (11.3)
124 (17.9)
30 (4.5)
Average number of days drinking alcohol in the past 2 weeks (mean ± SD)
1.2 ± 2.0
1.4 ± 2.2
0.7 ± 2.0
0.001
Average number of alcohol drinks† in the past 2 weeks (mean ± SD)
1.8 ± 3.0
2.1 ± 3.1
1.1 ± 2.2
0.002
Used illicit drugs in the past 12 months
4 (0.3)
3 (0.4)
1 (0.1)
0.33
Abbreviations: n, number; SD, standard deviation. Chi-squared test (or fisher’s exact test when a sample size was smaller than five in one cell) was used for categorical variables and independent student’s t test for continuous variables. †Can was a unit used for beer and glass for wine.
