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Table 3 Work Schedule, commitment, and mastery, by the proportion of respondents who had stopped smoking at follow-up. In Norwegian nurses' aides.

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

  

Stopped smoking

 

Baseline work factors

N †

n

Row %

P

Working hours per week

   

0.008

1–9

26

6

23.1

 

10–18

234

32

13.7

 

19–36

1655

160

9.7

 

> 36

291

20

6.9

 

Frequency of night shifts

   

0.724

Never

1060

102

9.6

 

Sometimes

602

60

10.0

 

Rather often

148

12

8.1

 

Very often

404

45

11.1

 

Commitment to the work unit ‡

   

0.721

1

408

36

8.8

 

2

436

39

8.9

 

3

375

43

11.5

 

4

653

64

9.8

 

5

349

36

10.3

 

Perceived mastery of work ‡

   

0.541

1

456

54

11.8

 

2

293

25

8.5

 

3

547

55

10.1

 

4

371

37

10.0

 

5

558

50

9.0

 
  1. N = Total number if respondents in each category. n = number of cases in each category. Row % = proportion of cases in each category. † The total number of individuals included in these analyses were somewhat lower than the number of individuals who responded to the questionnaire, because not all respondents answered all questions. ‡ Index divided into quintiles (1 is the lowest level).
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