Work factors and smoking cessation in nurses' aides: a prospective cohort study

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Table 2 Practice area, by the proportion of respondents who had stopped smoking at follow-up. In Norwegian nurses' aides.

		Stopped smoking
Practice area ^†	N	n	Row %	P ^‡
Somatic hospital department (adults)	241	27	11.2	0.493
Psychiatric hospital or hospital department (adults)	193	19	9.8	0.957
Paediatric department	27	2	7.4	0.656
Nursing home	966	96	9.9	0.981
Old people's home or apartment unit	232	21	9.1	0.627
Community nursing	332	31	9.3	0.684
Institution or apartment unit for mentally handicapped	252	26	10.3	0.838
Other	127	9	7.1	0.266

N = Total number if respondents in each category. n = number of cases in each category. Row % = proportion of cases in each category. ^† The categories are not mutually exclusive; some respondents were working in more than one workplace. ^‡ P-values in chi-squared test, in which respondents working in the noted practice area were compared with respondents not working in this area (all together).

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