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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol. 2022 Dec 5;108:30–43. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2022.11.004

Table 2.

Participant demographics and descriptive statistics for drinking behaviors

Demographics N=11
Age in years (Mean ± SD) 31.2 ± 3.0
Sex (n (%))
Male 5 (45.5%)
Female 6 (54.5%)
Race, non-hispanic ethnicity [n (%)]a
White 8 (72.7%)
Asian 1 (9.1%)
Black 2 (18.2%)
Work status (n (%))
Full-time 7 (63.6%)
Undergraduate/Graduate student – working 1 (9.1%)
Undergraduate/Graduate student – not working 3 (27.3%)
Drinking descriptive statistics N=11
Days drink per week (Mean ± SD) 3.8 ± 1.8
Drinks per week (Mean ± SD) 10.0 ± 7.5
Binge drinkers [n (%)]b 7 (63.6%)
Days per month – All participants (Mean ± SD) 2.7 ± 3.7
Days per month – Binge drinkers (Mean ± SD)c 4.3 ± 3.8
Drinker type [n (%)]d
Light 2 (18.2%)
Moderate 6 (54.5%)
Heavy 3 (27.3%)

Notes: SD = standard deviation.

a

All participants were non-Hispanic.

b

Binge drinking was defined based on consuming 4+ or 5+ drinks per day for women or men, respectively.

c

Mean days per week with binge drinking among people who engaged in binge drinking (n=7).

d

Drinkers were categorized using CDC definitions. Light = ≤3 drinks/week, moderate = >3 to 14 and >3 to 7 drinks/week for men and women, respectively, and heavy = ≥15 and ≥8 drinks/week for men and women, respectively (Centers for Disease Control, 2019).