Addiction Science & Clinical Practice

Table 4 Significant characteristics related to device used to access the internet (non-significant associations not presented)

From: A cross sectional survey of internet use among a highly socially disadvantaged population of tobacco smokers

	Device use n (%)	Crude		Full^b
	Device use n (%)	Odds Ratio (95%)	p value	Odds Ratio (95%)	p value
Computer
Income amount			0.035		0.045
≤ $200/week	31 (52.5%)	Ref		Ref
$201–400/week	88 (72.1%)	2.34 (1.2, 4.5)	0.010	2.35 (1.19, 4.64)	0.014
> $400/week	43 (67.2%)	1.85 (0.89, 3.84)	0.099	1.95 (0.90, 4.25)	0.091
Smartphone
Age^a	74%	0.93 (0.90, 0.96)	< 0.001	0.92 (0.89, 0.95)	< 0.001
Cannabis			0.150		0.011
No	150 (76.9%)	Ref		Ref
Yes	47 (68.1%)	0.64 (0.35, 1.17)		0.37 (0.18, 0.80)
Income amount			0.024		0.030
≤ $200/week	50 (84.6%)	Ref		Ref
$201–400/week	81 (66.4%)	0.36 (0.16, 0.79)	0.012	0.30 (0.12, 0.74)	0.009
> $400/week	50 (78.1%)	0.64 (0.26, 1.62)	0.349	0.47 (0.17, 1.34)	0.157
Tablet use
Age^a	29.8%	0.96 (0.94, 0.99)	0.005	0.96 (0.93, 0.99)	0.008
Not my (other) device
Age^a	38.8%	0.97 (0.94, 0.99)	0.005	0.97 (0.94, 1.00)	0.021

Italicised text indicates significance < 0.05
^a Rate at mean of continuous variables
^b Full model included age, gender, HSI, Indigenous Australian status, cannabis use, income amount, cessation intentions, marital status, and self-efficacy
Number of participants included in crude and full modelling was: computer crude n = 245 full model n = 243, smartphone crude age (n = 264) cannabis (n = 264) income amount (n = 245) full n = 243, tablet use crude n = 264 full n = 243, not my (other) device crude n = 264 full n = 243

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