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Table 1 Baseline data by recruitment setting; patients in psychiatry and addiction outpatient treatment, telephone helpline and internet help-seekers

From: Automated telephone interventions for problematic alcohol use in clinical and population samples: a randomized controlled trial

 

Outpatients in clinical treatment

Help-seekers from the general population

Total (n = 56)

Psychiatry (n = 45)

Addiction (n = 11)

Total (n = 192)

Helpline (n = 3)

Internet (n = 189)

Intervention group/control group (%)

42/14 (75/25)

32/13 (71/29)

10/1 (91/9)

130/62 (68/32)

3/0 (100/0)

127/62 (67/33)

Brief/extensive intervention (%)

22/20 (52/48)

16/16 (50/50)

6/4 (60/40)

64/66 (49/51)

3/0 (100/0)

61/66 (48/52)

Men/women (%)

24/32 (43/57)

17/28 (38/62)

7/4 (64/36)

94/36 (49/51)

1/2 (33/66)

93/96 (49/51)

Age, mean (SD)

40.5 (14.0)

37.8 (13.1)a, b

51.6 (12.2)a, c

43.8 (13.3)

25.0 (6.6)c, d

44.1 (13.2)b, d

AUDIT

 Probable dependence (%)

37 (66)

28 (62)

9 (82)

125 (65)

2 (67)

123 (65)

 Harmful use (%)

8 (14)

6 (13)

2 (18)

36 (19)

0 (0)

36 (19)

 Hazardous use (%)

11 (20)

11 (25)

0 (0)

31 (16)

1 (33)

30 (16)

 Total score, mean (SD)

22.2 (7.1)

21.4 (7.3)

25.5 (5.3)e

21.7 (5.5)

17.7 (9.5)

21.7 (5.5)e

 AUDIT-C score, mean (SD)

8.7 (2.3)

8.6 (2.3)f

10.1 (1.8)f, g

8.8 (1.8)

7.7 (4.5)

8.9 (1.8)g

 Alcohol problem scale, mean (SD)

13.4 (5.2)

12.9 (5.3)

15.4 (4.3)

12.8 (4.3)

10.0 (5.2)

12.8 (4.3)

  1. p values: a 0.005; b 0.006; c 0.011; d 0.017; e 0.041; f 0.046. g 0.016