Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the Computer

Table 1

Comparison of sociodemographic and drinking characteristic between nonparticipant, responders and nonresponders among those patients who were referred to the test by the staff.

	Non-participants	𝑃-value (nonparticipants versus nonresponders)	Nonresponders	𝑃-value (nonresponders versus responders)	Responders	𝑃-value (nonparticipants versus responders)
Gender (𝑃=.006)	𝑛 (%)		𝑛 (%)		𝑛 (%)
Male	455 (57)		102 (71)		123 (59)
Female	342 (43)		41 (29)		85 (41)
Total	797 (100)	.002	143 (100)	.023	208 (100)	.637
Age (𝑃=.000)	𝑛 (%)		𝑛 (%)		𝑛 (%)
18–20	66 (8)		9 (6)		5 (2)
21–30	110 (14)		16 (11)		10 (5)
31–40	84 (11)		13 (9)		23 (11)
41–50	126 (16)		24 (17)		31 (15)
51–60	188 (24)		38 (27)		52 (25)
≥61	215 (27)		42 (30)		87 (42)
Total	789 (100)	.816	142 (100)	.034	208 (100)	.000
Weekly consumption, g/week (𝑃=.010)
Median (range)	72 (480)		96 (480)		72 (468)
Mean (SE)	106.6 (3.2)	.170	118.2 (8.5)	.006	89.7 (5.7)	.010
Frequency of HED, no. of HED occasions/month (𝑃=.712)
Median (range)	3 (30)		3 (30)		3 (30)
Mean (SE)	4.7 (0.2)	.522	5.1 (0.6)	.691	4.5 (0.4)	.420