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

Table 2 Ever and current e-cigarette use among nursing students of Verona University by demographic characteristics

	E-cigarette ever users (n = 442)	p-value	E-cigarette current users (n = 31)	p-value
Gender^a		< 0.001		0.048
Men	144/329 (43.8)		12/324 (3.7)
Women	291/1107 (26.3)		19/1104 (1.7)
Class^a		0.738		0.398
1st	140/451 (31.0)		10/447 (2.2)
2nd	141/474 (29.7)		13/471 (2.8)
3rd	160/533 (30.0)		8/532 (1.5)
Centre		0.065		0.782
Verona	191/579 (33.0)		10/574 (1.7)
Vicenza	77/238 (32.4)		7/238 (2.9)
Legnago	63/199 (31.7)		4/198 (2.02)
Trento	42/177 (23.7)		3/176 (1.7)
Bolzano	69/267 (25.8)		7/266 (2.6)

Numbers of ever or current users of e-cigarettes were reported with percent frequencies in parentheses. p-values were computed by Fisher’s exact test for sex and centre and by chi-square test for trend for class. Significant results are highlighted in bold
^aInformation on gender and university class was not reported by 25 and 2 students, respectively

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