Relationships between inappropriate eating habits and problematic alcohol use, cigarette and waterpipe dependence among male adolescents in Lebanon

Table 1 Bivariate analysis of factors associated with the waterpipe and cigarette dependence and problematic alcohol use

Variable	LWDS-11 score	FTND score	AUDIT score
Age	0.092	−0.086	0.159^b
Body Mass Index	0.012	0.058	0.104^c
House crowding index	0.078	0.047	−0.028
EAT-26 score	0.180^a	0.118^c	0.138^b

LWDS Lebanese Waterpipe Dependence Scale, FTND Fagerstrom Nicotine Dependence Scale, AUDIT Alcohol use disorder identification test, EAT Eating attitude test; ^a p < 0.001; ^b p < 0.01; ^c p < 0.05; numbers correspond to the correlations coefficients (rho) obtained from the Spearman correlation test.

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