Tobacco use patterns, knowledge, attitudes towards tobacco and availability of tobacco control training among school personnel from a rural area in Poland

Table 4 Mean scores for the need for training dedicated to the youth to prevent their tobacco use (indicator 1) and knowledge and performed activities to teach the youth about tobacco use and its prevention (indicator 2) by teacher’s gender, duration of working experience and smoking status

Indicators	Total N = 1044	Male N = 132	Female N = 912	t (p value)	Working experience <10 years N = 464	Working experience ≥10 years N = 579	t (p value)	Current smoker N = 221	Non-smoker N = 823	t (p value)
Indicators	Mean ± SD
Indicator 1	7.77 ± 1.29	7.58 ± 1.45	7.79 ± 1.26	.15	7.71 ± 1.25	7.81 ± 1.32	.05	7.62 ± 1.33	7.80 ± 1.27	.059
Indicator 2	5.21 ± 0.74	5.22 ± 0.68	5.21 ± 0.75	.87	5.13 ± 0.77	5.28 ± 0.71	.003	5.27 ± 0.72	5.20 ± 0.74	.21

Indicator 1 - need for training dedicated to the youth to prevent their tobacco use based on 3 statements and scoring given for each statement from 1 = no, 2 = I do not know and 3 = yes (potential maximum 9 points; potential minimum 3 points) - the points were used as continuous variables to estimate the mean ranking for indicator
Indicator 2 - knowledge and performed activities to teach the youth about tobacco use and its prevention (based on 3 statements and scoring given for each statement from 1 = no to 2 = yes (potential maximum 6 points; potential minimum 3 points) - the points were used as continuous variables to estimate the mean ranking for indicator
±SD standard deviation

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