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Table 1 Basic demographic and smoking profile of included subjects

From: Testosterone and occupational burnout in professional male firefighters

 

Overall

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

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N (%)

100 (100)

49 (49)

22 (22)

29 (29)

Age, years

28 (9.8)

26 (5.5)

27 (11.8)

35 (10.5)

< 0.001

Years in service, years

5 (9)

4 (2)

5 (10.5)

12 (9.5)

< 0.001

Marital status, N (%)

 Single

31 (31)

21 (43)

7 (32)

3 (10)

< 0.001

 Married

67 (67)

26 (53)

15 (78)

26 (90)

 Divorced

2 (2)

2 (4)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Education, N (%)

 Secondary school

2 (2)

1 (2)

1 (5)

0 (0)

0.02

 High school

32 (32)

13 (26)

6 (27)

13 (45)

 College

35 (35)

20 (41)

12 (55)

3 (10)

 University

31 (31)

15 (31)

3 (13)

13 (45)

Cigarette smoking, N (%)

 Never

39 (39)

22 (44)

5 (22)

12 (41)

0.05

 Former

25 (25)

13 (27)

3 (14)

9 (31)

 Current

36 (36)

14 (29)

14 (64)

8 (28)

Electronic cigarette use, N (%)

6 (6)

1 (2)

3 (14)

2 (7)

0.16

Waterpipe smoking, N (%)

13 (13)

6 (12)

3 (14)

4 (14)

0.98

  1. Note: means are medians with the corresponding interquartile range. Statistical significance from χ2 test in 2*2, 2*3 or 2*4 tables. Group 1 are firefighters and senior firefighters; Group 2 are drivers, driver instructors and senior driver instructors; Group 3 are engineers, senior engineers, shift commanders, division heads, department managers and department vice managers