Table 1 Characteristics of participants who reported self-medication with cannabis based on an online survey in Quebec from November 2020 to January 2021 (n = 489)
Characteristicsa | Genderb | P-value* | Type of cannabis use | P-value* | Total participants (n = 489) N (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Men (n = 235) | Women (n = 238) | Medical use only (n = 122) | Medical + recreational use (n = 367) | ||||
Gender | 0.0173 | ||||||
Male | - | - | 46 (37.70) | 189 (51.50) | 235 (48.06) | ||
Female | - | - | 73 (59.84) | 165 (44.96) | 238 (48.67) | ||
Others | - | - | 3 (2.46) | 13 (3.54) | 16 (3.27) | ||
Age (mean = 36 years, min = 21, max = 77, median = 34) | 0.1419 | <.0001 | |||||
21–30 | 93 (39.74) | 100 (42.02) | 32 (26.23) | 174 (47.54) | 206 (42.21) | ||
31–40 | 69 (29.49) | 56 (23.53) | 33 (27.05) | 95 (25.96) | 128 (26.23) | ||
41–50 | 45 (19.23) | 37 (15.55) | 23 (18.85) | 59 (16.12) | 82 (16.80) | ||
51–60 | 18 (7.69) | 31 (13.03) | 22 (18.03) | 27 (7.38) | 49 (10.04) | ||
> 60 | 9 (3.85) | 14 (5.88) | 12 (9.84) | 11 (3.01) | 23 (4.71) | ||
Ethnicity | 0.0206 | 0.7377 | |||||
Caucasian | 224 (96.55) | 214 (91.45) | 114 (94.21) | 337 (93.35) | 451 (93.57) | ||
Others | 8 (3.45) | 20 (8.55) | 7 (5.79) | 24 (6.65) | 31 (6.43) | ||
Marital status | 0.7213 | 0.7222 | |||||
Single | 106 (46.29) | 104 (44.64) | 53 (44.92) | 168 (46.80) | 221 (46.33) | ||
In a relationship (married or unmarried) | 123 (53.71) | 129 (55.36) | 65 (55.08) | 191 (53.20) | 256 (53.67) | ||
Highest level of education | 0.0038 | 0.7900 | |||||
Primary or high school | 53 (23.25) | 40 (17.02) | 23 (19.49) | 72 (19.95) | 95 (19.83) | ||
Technical school | 62 (27.19) | 41 (17.45) | 27 (22.88) | 78 (21.61) | 105 (21.92) | ||
College | 68 (29.82) | 77 (32.77) | 35 (29.66) | 116 (32.13) | 151 (31.52) | ||
First cycle university | 31 (13.60) | 58 (24.68) | 22 (18.64) | 73 (20.22) | 95 (19.83) | ||
Second or third cycle university | 14 (6.14) | 19 (8.09) | 11 (9.32) | 22 (6.09) | 33 (6.89) | ||
Annual income | 0.1046 | 0.4683 | |||||
< 10,000 | 9 (4.00) | 16 (7.14) | 6 (5.31) | 20 (5.68) | 26 (5.59) | ||
10,000–24,999 | 36 (16.00) | 53 (23.66) | 29 (25.66) | 70 (19.89) | 99 (21.29) | ||
25,000–49,999 | 74 (32.89) | 58 (25.89) | 25 (22.12) | 111 (31.53) | 136 (29.25) | ||
50,000–74,999 | 38 (16.89) | 42 (18.75) | 23 (20.35) | 58 (16.48) | 81 (17.42) | ||
75,000–99,999 | 35 (15.56) | 24 (10.71) | 13 (11.50) | 46 (13.07) | 59 (12.69) | ||
100,000–124,999 | 17 (7.56) | 12 (5.36) | 9 (7.96) | 20 (5.68) | 29 (6.24) | ||
> 125,000 | 16 (7.11) | 19 (8.48) | 8 (7.07) | 27 (7.76) | 35 (7.53) | ||