Table 4. Predictors of practitioner behavior in relation to providing advice to patients about smoking cessation.
Univariate model | |
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Variable | p value |
Own smoking status | 0.982 |
Taken dietary supplements in past year | 0.979 |
Own annual expenditure on dietary supplements | 0.378 |
Gender | 0.178 |
Age | 0.178 |
Therapeutic endorsement status | 0.565 |
Years in practice | 0.366 |
Practice location | 0.465 |
Asks about patient smoking status | < 0.001* |
Except for whether a practitioner asks about smoking status, no variable was found to be statistically significant (*) by multiple univariate modeling and no multivariate modeling was applied.