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. 2009 Jun 12;9:36. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-9-36

Table 2.

Possible factors influencing recall of mobile telephone use

Predictors Call number Call duration
N ρ* P value‡ ρ* P value ‡


Overall 59 0.3 0.04 0.1 0.37

Gender

Females 36 0.3 0.08 0.1 0.64

Males 23 0.2 0.50 0.2 0.37

 Age

<13 30 0.2 0.30 0.02 0.90

≥ 13 29 0.3 0.07 0.1 0.56

Parental risk perception

No risk 4 0.3 0.68 -0.8 0.20

Low risk 12 0.3 0.40 0.6 0.02

Moderate/high risk 7 0.3 0.48 -0.1 0.80

Don't know 36 0.3 0.12 0.1 0.50

Language other than English spoken at home

No 44 0.2 0.10 0.3 0.06

Yes 15 0.3 0.24 -0.4 0.13

School system

 Catholic 10 0.5 0.20 0.1 0.74

 Independent 13 0.3 0.37 0.1 0.64

 Government 36 0.2 0.29 0.1 0.60

Socioeconomic status

Most disadvantaged 6 0.4 0.47 -0.4 0.47

2nd quintile 2 1 0.7 0.01

3rd quintile 12 0.2 0.80 0.2 0.48

4th quintile 16 0.6 0.01 0.3 0.70

Most advantaged 23 0.05 0.80 -0.03 0.90

*Spearman's correlation coefficient

‡ P value – self reports and logged results are independent