Table 2.

Baseline and 12-Month Measures of Weekly Alcohol Intake and Monthly Binge Drinking by Treatment Condition and Gender (N = 445)^*

Characteristic	Usual Care	Special Intervention
	Mean (± SD)	Mean (± SD)
Drinks per week†
Baseline‡	16.3 (12.1)	18.3 (12.2)
Twelve months	13.3 (13.1)	12.6 (14.9)
Binge drinking episodes per month†
Baseline‡	3.8 (5.8)	4.8 (6.2)
Twelve months	2.4 (5.3)	2.6 (5.4)

^*Usual care (n = 210); special intervention (n = 235).

^†Alcohol intake is assessed as the average number of drinks per week. Binge drinking is defined as drinking on one occasion more than 4 drinks for females or more than 5 drinks for males.

^‡Not statistically significantly different, P=.08 for drinks per week; P=.07 for binge drinking.

SD, standard deviation.