Prevalence of tobacco smoking in a sample of general secondary school students in Cairo and its correlation to other psychiatric disorders

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 3 Impulsivity in adolescents using different forms of tobacco according to Barratt impulsivity scale 11

		Total impulsivity	Mild	Moderate	Severe
Cigarette smoking	Cigarette smoker (n = 22)	51.62 ± 10.92	19 (86.36%)	2 (9.09%)	1 (4.55%)
Cigarette smoking	Non-cigarette smoker (n = 28)	53.04 ± 14.28	21 (75%)	6 (21.43%)	1 (3.57%)
Test of significance		*t =* 0.379 P = 0.707 (NS)	Fisher’s exact test P = 0.628 (NS)
Electronic cigarette smoking	E-cig smoker (n = 38)	51.58 ± 11.54	32 (84.21%)^a	6 (15.79%) ^a	0 (0%) ^b
Electronic cigarette smoking	Non-E-cig smoker (n = 12)	55.36 ± 16.94	8 (66.67%) ^a	2 (16.67%) ^a	2 (16.67%) ^a
Test of significance		*t =* 0.858 p = 0.395 (NS)	Fisher’s exact test p = 0.049 (S)
Water pipe smoking	Water pipe smokers (n = 34)	53.85 ± 13.86	25 (73.53%)	7 (20.59%)	2 (5.88%)
Water pipe smoking	Non-water pipe smokers (n = 16)	49.5 ± 10.2	15 (93.75%)	1 (6.25%)	0 (0%)
Test of significance		*t =* −1.114 p = 0.271 (NS)	Fisher’s exact test P = 0.247 (NS)

t, Student t-test of significance; Sig., significant; S, significant; NS, non-significant; E-cig, electronic cigarette
Each subscript letter denotes a subset of group categories whose column proportions do not differ significantly from each other at the .05 level