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Table 1 Demographic profile of the 548 bar workers who participated in the study; those who participated at both P1 and P3 (followed-up: N = 253) and those who were lost to follow-up by P3 (N = 295)

From: The relationship between workers’ self-reported changes in health and their attitudes towards a workplace intervention: lessons from smoke-free legislation across the UK hospitality industry

 

Followed-up (N = 253)

Lost to follow-up (N = 295)

 

p-val1

 

Mean

Range

Mean

Range

  

Age

31.3

(18.4, 66.7)

28.0

(18.2, 71.1)

 

<0.001

Hours Worked Per week

34.4

(2.0, 90.0)

31.9

(0.0, 168.0)

 

0.098

Years worked in this Bar

4.3

(0.0, 37.0)

2.0

(0.0, 26.0)

 

<0.001

Years worked in all bars

8.8

(0.0, 43.0)

6.1

(0.0, 40.0)

 

<0.001

 

N

%

N

%

Proportion lost to follow-up (%)

p-val 2

Sex

Male

126

49.8

137

46.4

52.1

0.406

Female

127

50.2

158

53.6

55.4

 

Smoking Status

      

Regular

104

41.1

124

42.0

54.4

 

Occasional

26

10.3

39

13.2

60.0

0.700

Ex

41

16.2

43

14.6

51.2

 

Never

80

31.6

88

29.8

52.4

 

Not answered

2

0.8

1

0.3

  

Location

      

Aberdeen

73

28.9

47

15.9

39.2

 

Glasgow

54

21.3

67

22.7

55.4

 

Edinburgh/Borders

63

24.9

66

22.4

51.2

 

Liverpool

30

11.9

35

11.9

53.8

<0.001

London

9

3.6

40

13.6

81.6

 

Newcastle

6

2.4

16

5.4

72.7

 

Rural Cumbria and Northumbria

18

7.1

24

8.1

57.1

 

Country

England

63

24.9

115

39.0

64.6

<0.001

Scotland

190

75.1

180

61.0

48.6

 

Education

      

School

69

27.3

69

23.4

50.0

 

Further Education College

77

30.4

92

31.2

54.4

0.232

University

102

40.3

119

40.3

53.8

 

Postgraduate

5

2.0

15

5.1

75.0

 

Ethnicity

Asian

0

0.0

1

0.3

100.0

 

Black

2

0.8

1

0.3

33.3

 

Mixed

2

0.8

9

3.1

81.8

0.217

Other

0

0.0

1

0.3

100.0

 

White

249

98.4

282

95.9

53.1

 

Not answered

  

1

   
  1. The answers shown in the table are as given at P1.
  2. 1 P-value for the 2 sample test of equal means.
  3. 2 P-value for the chi-square test of equal proportions.