Smoking and attitudes towards its cessation among native and international dental students in Lithuania

BMC Oral Health

Table 4 Results of multivariate logistic regression analysis^a of knowledge and attitude factors in discriminating international vs Lithuanian dental students

Discriminating variables	B	p	OR	95% CI for OR
Discriminating variables	B	p	OR	Lower	Upper
Knowledge and attitude factors (continuous variables):
Harmfulness (of smoking)	−0.02	0.901	0.98	0.74	1.31
Addiction (to smoking)	0.47	0.001	1.60	1.20	2.13
Willingness (to patients’ smoking cessation)	−0.04	0.768	0.96	0.75	1.24
“Dentist’s knowledge and skills”	0.76	<0.001	2.14	1.59	2.88
“Help patients”	−0.12	0.331	0.89	0.70	1.13
Adjusting (categorical) variables ^b :
Age (≤ 22-year olds)	0.41	0.176	1.50	0.83	2.70
Gender (male)	−0.33	0.245	0.72	0.41	1.26
Study phase (pre-clinical)	−1.04	<0.001	0.35	0.20	0.62
Smoking (non-smokers)	0.01	0.972	1.01	0.59	1.73

OR Odds Ratio of corresponding variable in discriminating international vs Lithuanian students. CI Confidence Interval
^aData weighted by age and gender
^bIn brackets: Reference Category

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