Table 3.

Drinking status, after-care participation, change in marital and employment status of telephone contact group (n=347) at 3, 6, 12, and 24 mo after the end of intensive treatment and no contact group (n=84) at 24 mo after end of intensive treatment

	Telephone contact group				No contact group
	3 mo	6 mo	12 mo	24 mo	24 mo
Drinking status with regard to initial cohort, including non-respondents	n = 197	n = 167	n = 109	n = 116	n = 84
Response rate from the initial cohort (n = 347):	56.8	48.1	31.4	33.4	30.5
No alcohol use – question 1 (%)*	48.4	40.3	27.1	27.7†	24.4†
No alcohol use – question 2 (%)‡	49.3	42.1	27.7	30.3§	24.4§
Alcohol use in respondents who relapsed in comparison with baseline:	n = 29	n = 27	n = 15	n = 20	n = 17
equal (%)	23.8	16.7		28.6II	14.3II
lower (%)	76.2	77.8	100.0	64.3	71.4
greater (%)		5.6		7.1	14.3
After-care participation of respondents (%):
group membership	47.0	48.2	45.9	45.5¶	40.9¶
psychotherapy or psychiatric treatment	11.9	13.1	13.8	12.4	15.9
none	40.1	38.7	40.4	42.1	43.2
Change in marital status of respondents (%):
unchanged	81.8	85.3	84.8	81.0**	82.8**
finding a partner	14.6	14.1	11.4	14.9	13.8
losing a partner	3.6	0.6	3.8	4.1	3.4
Change in employment status of respondents (%)
Unchanged	84.4	83.3	85.3	82.7††	68.2††
Better – getting job or promotion	13.1	13.0	12.7	12.7	21.2
Worse – losing job or lower status	2.5	3.7	2.0	4.5	10.6

*Are you still completely abstaining?

†χ²₁ = 0.29, P = 0.590.

‡Have you ever relapsed since the end of the intensive treatment?

§χ²₁ = 8.79, P = 0.118.

IIχ²₂ = 1.05, P = 0.591.

¶χ²₂ = 0.71, P = 0.702.

**χ²₂ = 0.12, P = 0.941.

††χ²₂ = 5.84, P = 0.054.