N | % | P value* | ||
Age group | ≤20, 0 years old | 72/372 | 19.4 | 0.002† |
20, 1–24, 0 years old | 98/376 | 26.1 | ||
24,1 years old | 16/42 | 38.1 | ||
Gender | Female | 134/547 | 24.5 | 0.332 |
Male | 59/275 | 21.5 | ||
Year of health science training | First-second year | 98/409 | 24.0 | 0.720† |
Third-fourth year | 75/327 | 22.9 | ||
Fifth-sixth year | 19/84 | 22.6 | ||
School of health sciences training | Biochemistry | 33/123 | 26.8 | 0.001‡ |
Medicine | 62/365 | 17.0 | ||
Veterinary medicine | 20/84 | 23.8 | ||
Nursing | 20/71 | 28.2 | ||
Medical laboratories | 57/176 | 32.4 | ||
Does your school have an official policy banning smoking? | Yes, (school building or/and clinics) | 98/418 | 23.4 | 0.985 |
No/I don’t know | 94/400 | 23.5 | ||
Is your school’s official smoking ban for school buildings/clinics enforced? | Yes | 52/216 | 24.1 | 0.346 |
No | 57/278 | 20.5 | ||
There is no antismoking law/I don’t know | 82/322 | 25.5 | ||
During your health science school training, were you taught in any of your classes about the dangers of smoking? | Yes | 134/535 | 25.0 | 0.299 |
No/I don’t know | 58/267 | 21.7 | ||
Alcohol consumption (units/year) | ≥532.00 | 74/206 | 35.9 | <0.001† |
225.25–531.99 | 50/205 | 24.4 | ||
70.00–225.24 | 50/206 | 24.3 | ||
<70.00 | 19/205 | 9.3 | ||
During the past 7 days, on how many of those days has anyone (family member or friend) smoked inside your home, in your presence? | ≥1 day | 133/340 | 39.1 | <0.001‡ |
0 days | 60/481 | 12.5 |
*2 test.
†2 test for trend.
‡Statistically significant