Effect of a Targeted Women's Health Intervention in an Inner-City Emergency Department

Table 1

Initial characteristics of patients randomized to the Intervention Group versus Enhanced Usual Care. “Negative” indicates patients who screened negative on all instruments utilized and were not randomized, “Quit” indicates patients who did not complete initial survey. (ISA-P: Index of Spousal Abuse, physical ISA-NP: Index of Spousal Abuse, nonphysical HONC: hooked on nicotine checklist TWEAK: Tolerance, Worried, Eye openers, Amnesia, K(C)utdown (alcohol screening) DAST: Drug Abuse Screening Test BDI: Beck’s Depression Inventory). *: indicates 𝑃<0.05.

	Enhanced Usual Care (𝑛=155)	Intervention (𝑛=156)	Negative (𝑛=270)	Quit (𝑛=16)	𝑃value
Mean age (range)*	37.9 (21–55)	41.5 (21–65)	38.0 (21–62)	39.9 (23–57)	0.0011
Marital status
Single	69.0%	73.0%	68.9%	75.0%	0.6293
Separated	10.3%	12.2%	7.0%	6.3%
Divorced	12.9%	9.6%	10.0%	6.3%
Widowed	1.9%	1.3%	3.3%	0%
Now married	5.8%	9.6%	10.7%	12.5%
Education:
<9th grade	5.8%	8.3%	3.7%	12.5%	0.9063
Some HS	23.9%	25.0%	11.5%	6.3%
High school	36.8%	38.1%	43.3%	62.5%
Some college	25.8%	25.0%	28.1%	23.1%
College	7.7%	10.3%	13.0%	0
Initial screening:
ISA-P +	18.1%	25.0%	0	0	0.2206
ISA-NP +	20.6%	25.6%	0	6.3%	0.4405
HONC +	74.8%	80.1%	0	6.3%	0.8373
TWEAK +	45.8%	57.1%	0	12.5%	0.1462
DAST +	22.6%	32.7%	0	12.5%	0.093
BDI +	14.2%	28.2%	0	6.3%	0.9326