Table 1 |
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Demographic characteristics of participants and their parents by participants' smoking status (N = 1,417)* |
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| Participants' smoking status |
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| Never (n = 830; 58.6%) |
Ever (n = 587; 41.4%) |
DF |
p value |
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| Participant Characteristic |
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| Gender |
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| Male |
297 (52.2) |
272 (47.8) |
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| Female |
533 (62.9) |
315 (37.1) |
1 |
< 0.01 |
| Age (years) |
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| Mean (SD) |
15.60 (0.86) |
15.74 (0.94) |
1415 |
< 0.01 |
| Ethnicity |
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| Black |
375 (68.6) |
172 (31.4) |
1 |
< 0.01 |
| Hispanic |
376 (52.0) |
347 (48.0) |
1 |
< 0.01 |
| Other |
39 (62.9) |
23 (37.1) |
1 |
0.48 |
| White |
40 (47.1) |
45 (52.9) |
1 |
0.03 |
| Temptations to smoke |
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| Mean (SD) |
1.27 (0.65) |
1.73 (0.90) |
1415 |
< 0.01 |
| Parent Characteristic |
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| Highest level of education of either parent |
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| Less than high school |
136 (48.1) |
147 (51.9) |
1 |
< 0.01 |
| Completed high school |
188 (58.9) |
131 (41.9) |
1 |
0.88 |
| Some college |
157 (60.2) |
104 (39.8) |
1 |
0.57 |
| Completed college |
198 (63.3) |
115 (36.7) |
1 |
0.06 |
| Marital status |
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| Married |
463 (62.5) |
278 (37.5) |
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| Not married |
367 (54.8) |
309 (45.2) |
1 |
< 0.01 |
| Smoking status |
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| Neither parent smokes |
496 (63.6) |
296 (36.4) |
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| Only one parent smokes |
260 (56.8) |
198 (43.2) |
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| Both parents smoke |
74 (44.3) |
93 (55.7) |
2 |
< 0.01 |
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*Data in table are numbers of participants or parents (percentages) unless otherwise specified; percentages are row percentages. SD = Standard Deviation; DF = Degrees of Freedom. P-values for age and temptations to smoke are based on Student's t-test, all other p-values are based on chi-square tests of association. | ||||
Wilkinson et al. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2008 3:18 doi:10.1186/1747-597X-3-18 |
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