Cannabis use motives and associations with personal and work characteristics among Canadian workers: a cross-sectional study

Table 2 Features of cannabis use according to pattern of cannabis use motives (n = 589)^a

Features of cannabis use	Cannabis use motives			p-value^b
	No work-related motives (n = 334)	Less than 50% work-related motives (n = 91)	At least 50% work-related motives (n = 131)
	n (column %)	n (column %)	n (column %)
Frequency of past-year use				< 0.0001
< 1 day/month	168 (50.3)	8 (8.8)	27 (20.6)
1–3 days/month	68 (20.4)	14 (15.4)	23 (17.6)
1–4 days/week	51 (15.3)	30 (33.0)	31 (23.7)
5 + days/week	47 (14.1)	39 (42.9)	50 (38.2)
Self-reported purpose of use^c
Non-medical only	260 (79.3)	49 (53.8)	62 (48.1)	< 0.0001
Medical only or mixed	68 (20.7)	42 (46.2)	67 (51.9)
Workplace use in past year^d
Yes	42 (12.7)	38 (41.8)	65 (49.6)	< 0.0001
No	290 (87.3)	53 (58.2)	66 (50.4)

^a A total of 33 respondents reported using cannabis in the past year, but were missing data on whether their motives for use were related to work
^b P-values correspond to the results of chi-square analyses comparing respondents with no work-related cannabis use motives, those with less than 50% work-related motives, and those with at least 50% work-related motives
^c A total of 8 respondents were missing data on purpose of use
^d A total of 2 respondents were missing data on workplace use

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