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Table 2 Summary of 6-month self-reported and urine verified abstinence and missing data by treatment arms and by type of intervention

From: Analysis of self-report and biochemically verified tobacco abstinence outcomes with missing data: a sensitivity analysis using two-stage imputation

  

Self-report abstinence and survey missing at 6 months

Urine-verified abstinence and urine missing at 6 months

Treatment group

Total

N

Self-report abstinence

n (%)

Self-report failure

n (%)

Survey question missing

n (%)

Urine-verified abstinence

n (%a)

Urine-verified failure

n (%a)

Urine missing

n (%a)

By treatment arm

 Tx1

306

65 (21.2%)

194 (63.4%)

47 (15.4%)

38 (58.5%)

6 (9.2%)

21 (32.3%)

 Tx2

296

59 (19.9%)

170 (57.4%)

67 (22.6%)

34 (57.6%)

6 (10.2%)

19 (32.2%)

 Tx3

309

61 (19.7%)

197 (63.8%)

51 (16.5%)

35 (57.4%)

6 (9.8%)

20 (32.8%)

 Tx4

306

79 (25.8%)

156 (51.0%)

71 (23.2%)

50 (63.3%)

7 (8.9%)

22 (27.8%)

By intervention

 No counseling (Tx1 + Tx3)

615

126 (20.5%)

391 (63.6%)

98 (15.9%)

73 (57.9%)

12 (9.5%)

41 (32.5%)

 Counseling (Tx2 + Tx4)

602

138 (22.9%)

326 (54.2%)

138 (22.9%)

84 (60.9%)

13 (9.4%)

41 (29.7%)

 Single contest (Tx1 + Tx2)

602

124 (20.6%)

364 (60.5%)

114 (18.9%)

72 (58.1%)

12 (9.7%)

40 (32.2%)

 Multiple contests (Tx3 + Tx4)

615

140 (22.8%)

353 (57.4%)

122 (19.8%)

85 (60.7%)

13 (9.3%)

42 (30.0%)

Overall

1217

264 (21.7%)

717 (58.9%)

236 (19.4%)

157 (59.5%)b

25 (9.5%)b

82 (31.1%)

  1. Tx1: single contest + no counseling; Tx2: single contest + counseling; Tx3: multiple contests + no counseling; Tx4: multiple contest + counseling
  2. aPercentage out of those who self-reported abstinence
  3. bFive subjects whose urine samples were not of adequate amount for testing. These 5 missing urine test results were assumed to have the same distribution as the rest 177 urine samples (86% verified abstinence and 14% verified failure) and added to the two columns accordingly