Patient preferences for emergency department-initiated tobacco interventions: a multicenter cross-sectional study of current smokers

Table 4 Predictors of Interest in ED Bedside Counseling

	Univariable tests		Linear regression model
Patient Characteristic	Likert Score, Mean (SE) or r (correlation)	p *	β coefficient (95% CI)
Age	0.09	0.06	0.006 (-0.01, 0.02)
Gender		0.05	-0.45 (-0.80, -0.10)
Male (0)	2.75 (0.13)
Female (1)	2.42 (0.11)
Race/ethnicity		0.01	-0.40 (-0.75, -0.05)
Non-white (0)	2.75 (0.13)
White (1)	2.31 (0.12)
Insurance		1.00
Insured	2.57 (0.14)
Uninsured	2.57 (0.11)
Education		0.03	-0.40 (-0.81, -0.01)
Finished high school	2.44 (0.10)
Did not finish high school	2.92 (0.19)
Smoking-related ICD-9 diagnosis		0.52
Yes	2.73 (0.28)
No	2.55 (0.09)
Heavy Smoking Index (HSI)	0.03	0.60
Smoking-related symptoms	0.10	0.05	0.09 (0.01, 0.16)

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