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Table 1 Sociodemographic and cannabis use characteristics of 415 Lebanese university students

From: Development of scales to measure Lebanese university students’ perceived knowledge about and attitudes about cannabis use: initial psychometric properties

Variable

N (%)

Gender

 Male

171 (41.2%)

 Female

244 (58.8%)

Employment status

 No

298 (71.8%)

 Yes (part-time or full-time)

117 (28.2%)

Previously tried cannabis

for recreational purposes (yes)

133 (32.0%)

for medicinal purposes (yes)

31 (7.5%)

For both recreational and medicinal purposes (yes)

28 (6.7%)

 

Mean (SD)

Age (in years)

20.96 (2.67)

Perceived knowledge about cannabis use scale score

58.11 (14.57) (range 29–88)

Attitudes about cannabis use scale score

45.52 (6.35) (range 21–63)

  1. Perceived knowledge is the participant accumulated information on cannabis use and its effects. Attitude is the individual’s thoughts and opinion on cannabis recreational and medical use. Both metrics were obtained from the respective scales created
  2. Perceived knowledge about cannabis use scale score [min: 29, max: 145]
  3. Attitudes about cannabis use scale score [min: 16, max: 80]