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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Health. 2012;60(1):66–73. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2011.572325

Table 1.

Sample Demographics

Characteristic Total Sample of Students Students Seen in Student Health Center Students Screened for Tobacco Use Smokers who Received Brief Intervention
N=3800* N=1980 (52.1%)* N=1225 (61.8%)* N=161 (50%)*
N (%) or mean, sd N (%) or mean, sd N (%) or mean, sd N (%) or mean, sd

Gender
 Male 1441 (38.0) 660 (33.4) 375 (30.7) 63 (39.1)
 Female 2348 (62.0) 1314 (66.6) 847 (69.3) 98 (60.9)

Race/Ethnicity
 Non-Hispanic White 3056 (80.7) 1634 (82.7) 1021 (83.6) 148 (91.9)
 Other 733 (19.3) 342 (17.3) 200 (16.4) 13 (8.1)

Classification
 Freshman 1024 (27.2) 374 (19.0) 213 (17.5) 26 (16.3)
 Sophomore 966 (25.7) 544 (27.7) 329 (27.0) 38 (23.7)
 Junior 886 (23.6) 492 (25.0) 309 (25.4) 58 (36.3)
 Senior 769 (20.4) 480 (24.4) 319 (26.2) 29 (18.1)
 Other 116 (3.1) 77 (3.9) 48 (3.9) 9 (5.6)

Smoking Status
 Never smokers 1934 (51.4) 961 (48.9) 576 (47.3) -
 Former/Experimenter 859 (22.8) 453 (23.1) 273 (22.4) -
 Current nondaily smokers 693 (18.4) 396 (20.2) 254 (20.8) 82 (50.9)
 Current daily smokers 278 (7.4) 154 (7.8) 116 (9.5) 79 (49.1)

Institutional Smoking Rate 25.7 ± 6.1 26.3 ± 6.2 26.6 ± 6.5 26.4 ± 6.1

Clinic Caseload 132.1 ± 33.6 132.7 ± 33.1 130.84 ± 33.9 130.0 ± 30.9
*

Categorical totals may differ from sample totals due to missing responses.