The association between risk perceptions, anxiety, and self-reported changes in tobacco and nicotine product use due to COVID-19 in May-June 2020 in Israel

Table 2 Statistical model results: Changes in product use and home smoking following Wave 1 COVID-19 Lockdown

		Change in use of combustible cigarettes, among ever-smokers of combustible cigarettes (n = 259)		Change in use of nargila, among ever-users of nargila (n = 164)		Change in home smoking (n = 272)
		Adjusted OR [95% CI]	p-value	Adjusted OR [95% CI]	p-value	Adjusted OR [95%CI]	p-value
Sex	Females vs. Males	0.90 [0.47,1.75]	0.76	0.94 [0.25,3.53]	0.93	1.24 [0.61,2.55]	0.56
Population Group	Jewish versus Arab population	0.77 [0.32,1.86]	0.56	0.43 [0.14,1.36]	0.15	0.61 [0.24,1.53]	0.29
Age	18–39 vs. 60+	1.65 [0.76,3.58]	0.32	3.28 [0.56,19.1]	0.25	1.50 [0.64,3.52]	0.65
Age	40–59 vs. 60+	1.05 [0.47,2.34]		1.47 [0.22,10.04]		1.34 [0.55,3.28]
Anxiety		1.06 [0.47,2.34]	0.78	0.65 [0.34,1.26]	0.20	1.59 [1.04,2.42]	0.03
Cigarette smoking risk perceptions		0.80 [0.56,1.13]	0.20	(Not included)		1.09 [0.75,1.57]	0.66
Current product use status (For Combustibles: Current use of CCs. For Nargila: Current use of Nargila. For home smoking: Any current product use)	No vs. Yes	0.84 [0.46,1.53]	0.57	0.06 [0.02,0.21]	< 0.001	0.58 [0.30,1.14]	0.11

Data are weighted and adjusted for age, sex, and population group distributions of ever-smokers, according to data from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. CI Confidence interval. Note: Because there was a complete separation of data points when running the statistical model for e-cigarettes, and the maximum likelihood estimate did not exist, we do not present results from that model

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