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Table 3 Correlates of tobacco use screening and advise to quit delivered by health care providers

From: Factors influencing tobacco use treatment patterns among Vietnamese health care providers working in community health centers

  

Asked

Advised to quit

Constructs

None or few patients

Half or more

p-value

None or few patients

Half or more

p-value

Age

36.2 (9.71)

41.48 (10.17)

.01

36.4 (10.06)

39.66 (9.90)

.13

Gender

 

.20

  

.09

  Female

85 (79.4%)

22 (20.6%)

 

52 (72.2%)

20 (27.8%)

 

  Male

18 (66.7%)

9 (33.3%)

 

13 (52.0%)

12 (48.0%)

 

Smoking status

 

1.0

  

.52

  Current smoker

10 (76.9%)

3 (23.1%)

 

7 (58.3%)

5 (41.7%)

 

  Former or nonsmoker

93 (76.9%)

28 (23.1%)

 

58 (68.2%)

27 (31.8%)

 

Clinic smoking policy

 

1.0

  

1.0

  Yes

74 (75.5%)

24 (24.5%)

 

49 (66.2%)

25 (33.8%)

 

  No

13 (76.5%)

4 (23.5%)

 

10 (71.4%)

4 (28.6%)

 

Mean score attitudes

2.9 (0.43)

3.1 (0.39)

.01

3.0 (0.40)

3.1 (0.40)

.41

Mean score self-efficacy

2.4 (0.64)

2.7 (0.53)

.02

2.5 (0.60)

2.6 (0.45)

.27

Mean score norms

3.2 (0.61)

3.6 (0.42)

<.001

3.3 (0.52)

3.6 (0.54)

.001

  1. Means with SD in parenthesis are show for continuous variables; counts with percentages are shown for categorical variables. T-test was used for continuous variables and Chi square test for categorical variables.