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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of Verona nursing students who responded or did not respond to the questionnaire on e-cigarette use and tobacco smoking

From: Knowledge and use of e-cigarettes among nursing students: results from a cross-sectional survey in north-eastern Italy

 

Responders (n = 1463)

Non-responders (n = 557)

p-value

Gender (women)

1108 (77.1%)

468 (81.0%)

0.056

Age, in years (mean (SD))

23.2 (4.2)

19.2 (3.0)

< 0.001

Class

< 0.001

 1st

452 (30.9%)

282 (50.8%)

 

 2nd

474 (32.4%)

165 (29.7%)

 

 3rd

535 (36.6%)

108 (19.5%)

 

Centre

< 0.001

 Verona

566 (38.7%)

296 (53.5%)

 

 Vicenza

238 (16.3%)

45 (8.1%)

 

 Legnago

205 (14.0%)

74 (13.4%)

 

 Trentoa

177 (12.1%)

57 (10.3%)

 

 Bolzano

277 (18.9%)

81 (14.6%)

 
  1. p-values were computed by Fisher’s exact test for gender and centre, by chi-square test for trend for class, and by t test for age
  2. aIn Trento, the anonymous questionnaire was not administered to nursing students in the 1st class