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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 18.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Res. 2016 Sep-Oct;65(5):408–414. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000176

TABLE 1.

Participant Characteristics by e-Cigarette Use Status

All
(N = 194)
Current
(n = 49)
Former
(n = 77)
Never
(n = 68)
Characteristic M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) p

Age 29.6 (6.71) 28.4 (6.15) 29.5 (6.38) 30.5 (7.39) .14a




n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)




Race/ethnicity
 White/non-Hispanic 143 (78.1) 40 (87.0) 65 (84.4) 38 (63.3) .003b
 Other 40 (21.9) 6 (13.0) 12 (15.6) 22 (36.7)
Education
 College graduate 31 (16.0) 3 (6.1) 19 (24.7) 9 (13.2) .02b
 <College graduate 163 (84.0) 46 (93.9) 58 (75.3) 59 (86.8)
Pregnant
 Yes 100 (51.6) 23 (46.9) 38 (49.3) 39 (57.3) .48b
 No 94 (48.4) 26 (53.1) 39 (50.7) 29 (42.7)
Conventional cigarettes
 Current 163 (84.0) 43 (87.8) 64 (83.1) 56 (82.4) .45a
 Former 24 (12.4) 6 (12.2) 8 (10.4) 10 (14.7)
 Never 7 (3.6) 0 (0.0) 5 (6.5) 2 (2.9)
e-Cigarettes a hazard
 Serious 21 (10.9) 4 (8.3) 5 (6.5) 12 (17.7) .45a
 Moderate 59 (30.6) 12 (25.0) 32 (41.5) 15 (22.1)
 Minor 74 (38.3) 19 (39.6) 30 (39.0) 25 (36.7)
 Not at all 39 (20.2) 13 (27.1) 10 (13.0) 16 (23.5)

Note. SD = standard deviation. Column percentages are shown.

a

Spearman’s rank correlation.

b

Mann-Whitney U test.

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