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Table 2.

Socio-demographic and professional characteristics associated with smoking and drinking behaviours among 1784 Swiss primary care physicians.

			Smoking status				Drinking behavior (AUDIT-C score)				Drinking behavior (third question of AUDIT-C)
			Current smoker	Former smoker	Never smoker		Non drinker	Drinker	At risk drinker		Non drinker	Drinker	At risk drinker
	n	%	%	%	%	p-value	%	%	%	p-value	%	%	%	p-value
Sex¹						0.04				< 0.001				< 0.001
Male	1491	83.6	12.6	23.3	64.0		3.1	65.8	31.1		3.1	59.1	37.8
Female	293	16.4	11.0	17.5	71.6		11.6	64.4	24.0		11.6	76.0	12.2
Age (years)¹						0.002				< 0.001				< 0.001
< 35	15	0.8	0.0	13.3	86.7		6.7	80.0	13.3		6.7	86.7	6.7
36–45	476	26.7	10.5	17.3	72.2		5.3	71.6	23.1		5.3	66.8	27.9
45–55	829	46.5	14.0	22.2	63.7		4.4	64.6	31.0		4.4	59.1	36.6
56–65	400	22.4	11.5	28.1	60.4		2.3	59.6	38.1		2.3	60.0	37.8
>65	64	3.6	12.5	28.1	59.4		14.3	66.7	19.0		14.3	68.3	17.5
Region¹						0.002				0.14				0.02
German-speaking	1277	71.6	11.0	20.9	68.1		4.2	67.2	28.6		4.2	64.1	31.7
French-speaking	437	24.5	16.1	26.1	57.8		4.8	60.9	34.3		4.8	55.5	39.7
Italian-speaking	70	3.9	14.5	24.6	60.9		7.1	65.7	27.1		7.1	62.9	30.0
Living alone ¹						< 0.001				0.008				0.08
Yes	1665	93.9	26.1	15.1	58.8		8.4	53.8	37.8		8.4	56.3	35.3
No	119	6.7	11.4	22.9	65.7		4.2	66.4	29.4		4.2	62.3	33.5
Principal outcome of the household ¹(13 missing)						0.007				0.002				< 0.001
Yes	1510	85.3	12.8	23.3	63.9		4.0	64.5	31.4		4.0	59.4	36.6
No	261	14.7	10.0	16.2	73.8		6.9	71.5	21.5		6.9	75.9	17.2
Medical specialty ¹						0.08				0.25				0.31
General medicine	805	45.1	11.8	21.2	67.0		3.7	66.2	30.0		3.7	62.1	34.1
General internal medicine	596	33.4	12.0	24.6	63.4		4.0	65.1	30.9		4.0	62.0	34.0
Paediatrics	164	9.2	9.8	18.4	71.8		6.7	68.3	25.0		6.7	64.0	29.3
None	219	12.3	17.4	23.3	59.4		6.8	62.6	30.6		6.8	59.4	33.8
Type of practice ¹(7 missing)						0.62				0.45				0.92
Solo	1123	63.2	12.3	23.0	64.7		4.2	65.9	29.9		4.2	61.8	34.0
Group	598	33.7	12.4	21.6	65.9		5.0	64.3	30.7		5.0	62.3	32.7
Other	56	3.2	12.5	14.3	73.2		5.4	75.0	19.6		5.4	60.7	33.9
Place of practice ¹						0.18				0.79				0.86
Urban	664	37.3	14.5	23.3	62.2		4.7	63.9	31.4		4.7	60.4	34.9
Semi-urban	591	33.2	11.5	21.9	66.6		4.6	65.8	29.6		4.6	62.0	33.4
Rural	524	29.5	10.5	21.8	67.7		4.2	67.5	28.3		4.2	63.7	32.1

¹: χ²test