Table 3.
Role of healthcare professionals for prevention and health promotion using a well–being approach and type of course in a sample of 508 undergraduates of University of Palermo.
| Characteristics § | Do You Think that Healthcare Professionals Could Be Considered as Models for Their Patients and People in General? | Do You Think that Healthcare Professionals Should Counsel Their Patients for Tobacco Cessation on a Regular Basis? | Do You Think that a Patient Has an Increased Probability to Stop Smoking, if Assisted by His/Her Practitioner or Nurse? | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | n (%) | OR (95%CI) §§ p-Value |
N | n (%) | OR (95%CI) §§ p-Value |
N | n (%) | OR (95%CI) §§ p-Value |
|
| eudaimonia | |||||||||
| no | 172 | 21 (12.21) | 21 | 3 (14.29) | 88 | 9 (10.23) | |||
| yes | 334 | 57 (17.07) | 1.48 (0.86–2.54) 0.152 |
485 | 75 (15.46) | 1.10 (0.32–3.82) 0.884 |
419 | 69 (16.47) | 1.73 (0.83–3.62) 0.141 |
| hedonia | |||||||||
| no | 172 | 34 (19.77) | 21 | 3 (14.29) | 88 | 17 (19.32) | |||
| yes | 334 | 47 (14.07) | 0.66 (0.41–1.08) 0.098 |
485 | 79 (16.29) | 1.17 (0.34–4.06) 0.808 |
419 | 65 (15.51) | 0.77 (0.42–1.39) 0.379 |
| both | |||||||||
| no | 172 | 39 (22.67) | 21 | 9 (42.86) | 88 | 29 (32.95) | |||
| yes | 334 | 122 (36.53) |
1.96 (1.28–3.00)
0.002 |
485 | 151 (31.13) | 0.60 (0.255–1.46) 0.259 |
419 | 132 (31.50) | 0.94 (0.57–1.53) 0.791 |
| type of course | |||||||||
| non–healthcare | 366 | 238 (65.0) | 366 | 346 (94.5) | 367 | 296 (80.7) | |||
| healthcare | 140 | 96 (68.6) | 1.17 (0.77–1.78) 0.451 |
140 | 139 (99.3) |
8.03 (1.05–61.3)
0.013 |
140 | 123 (87.9) | 1.74 (0.98–3.08) 0.056 |
§ Statistics were calculated on available data; Bold values are statistically significant; §§ OR: Odds ratio; CI: Confidence Interval.