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

Table 2

Comparison of sociodemographic and drinking characteristic between nonparticipant, responders and nonresponders among those patients who did the test on their own initiative.

	Non-participants	𝑃-value (nonparticipants versus nonresponders)	Nonresponders	𝑃-value (non-responders versus responders)	Responders	𝑃-value (nonparticipants versus responders)
Gender (𝑃=.839)	𝑛 (%)		𝑛 (%)		𝑛 (%)
Male	1074 (60)		50 (57)		84 (60)
Female	720 (40)		38 (43)		55 (40)
Total	1794 (100)	.579	88 (100)	.678	139 (100)	.929
Age (𝑃=.000)	𝑛 (%)		𝑛 (%)		𝑛 (%)
18–20	187 (11)		15 (17)		3 (2)
21–30	389 (22)		24 (27)		15 (11)
31–40	338 (19)		16 (18)		19 (14)
41–50	312 (18)		13 (15)		21 (15)
51–60	255 (14)		9 (10)		30 (22)
≥61	303 (17)		11 (13)		51 (37)
Total	1784 (100)	.232	88 (100)	.000	139 (100)	.000
Weekly consumption, g/week (𝑃=.031)
Median (range)	84 (504)		90 (432)		72 (420)
Mean (SE)	110.6 (2.2)	.965	111.0 (9.5)	.049	89.3 (6.4)	.002
Frequency of HED, no. of HED occasions/month (𝑃=.654)
Median (range)	3 (30)		3 (29)		3 (30)
Mean (SE)	4.8 (0.2)	.351	4.1 (0.6)	.442	4.8 (0.6)	.982