Respondents without educational qualifications (vs. with qualifications) were also more likely to have cancer as greatest health fear (63% vs. 51%), feel uncomfortable thinking about it (56% vs. 46%), and worry a lot about cancer (28% vs. 20%).
a Completion high school or additional qualifications vs lower than high school education; b Aged younger than 50 years vs 50 years and older; c Five months or more vs less than five months; d Yes vs No In the multivariate analysis, data was complete for 54% of the original cohort (n = 536) and 67% of those taking at least one medication (n = 509).
There was a slightly higher percentage of the population working (42.6 vs 40.1%), and fewer unemployed (2.6 vs 3.4%), but a similar percentage who achieved higher educational qualifications (18.9 vs 19.8%).
More players were reported taking medications during the knockout round than during the qualification round (0.36±0.48 vs 0.49±0.50, p<0.001).
A multivariate model showed that only baseline non-smoking status (p<0.001), higher (tertiary) educational qualifications (p<0.001) and working (vs unemployment or non-participation in the labour force; p=0.008) were associated with increased likelihood of retention and consent to data linkage in subsequent waves of data collection.
Non-smokers with valid cotinine measurements (n=4809) were similar to the total eligible non-smoking sample from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (n=8061) for age (65.1 v 65.7 years), sex (53.2% v 55.3% women), ethnic origin (97.7% v 97.6% white), education (37.6% v 40.0% with no qualifications), and occupational class (37.9% v 38.6% manual).
Doctors having board specialization / qualification in family medicine only regarded this approach more important than their colleagues with two qualifications (58.8% vs 50.5%, p = 0.038).
Eating (having a snack) between two main meals was prohibited more frequently by doctors with more qualifications (83.3% vs 74.9%, p = 0.044).
It was preferred by doctors qualified in family medicine only compared to those who had acquired more board qualifications (71.8% vs 61.7%, p = 0.035).
Developing specific skills vs further qualifications: Whether or not further qualifications, or further experience is best for your career will depend on the path you choose to take and the sort of organisationw you want to work for.
The profile of respondents was similar to that of the Australian population in terms of age, household income and language spoken at home, however, there was an overrepresentation of people who had attained a university level qualification (40.2% vs 25.4% in Australia, [ 55].
