Factors associated with implementation of the 5A’s smoking cessation model

Table 1 Characteristics of the clinical and non-clinicial participants by independent variables

	Overall		Clinical Health care workers		Non-clinical Health care workers		p
	n	%	n	%	n	%	p
Overall	699	100	580	82.1	119	17.9	<0.001
Sex^a
Men	135	19.3	107	18.4	28	23.5	0.162
Women	559	80.0	471	81.2	88	73.9	0.162
Age^a
< 40 years/old	342	48.9	291	50.2	51	42.9	0.199
≥ 40 years/old	305	43.6	248	42.8	57	47.9	0.199
Professional group
Doctor	52	7.4	43	7.4	9	7.6	<0.001
Registered nurses	375	53.6	345	59.5	30	25.2
Nursing Assistants	143	20.5	131	22.6	12	10.1
Others	129	18.5	61	10.5	68	57.1
Working experience^a
< 14 years	326	46.6	271	46.7	55	46.2	0.756
≥ 14 years	326	46.6	268	46.2	58	48.7	0.756
Smoking
Smokers	170	24.3	137	23.6	33	27.7	0.603
Former smokers	213	30.5	177	30.5	36	30.3
Never smokers	316	45.2	266	45,9	50	42.0
Health care organization
Hospital	592	84.7	488	84.1	104	87.4	0.369
Other health care organizations	107	15.3	92	15.9	15	12.6	0.369
Previous Training
No	565	80.8	469	80.9	96	80.7	0.962
Yes	134	19.2	111	19.1	23	19.3	0.962

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