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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2008 Jul 11;72(3):394–401. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.06.001

Table 2.

Sociodemographic Characteristics of Study Participants (Discussions in which patients disclosed substances use)

Characteristic Mean (range/median) or number
Provider Participants (N=12)
  Provider type
    Obstetrics-gynecology resident physician 7
    Nurse midwife 4
    Nurse practitioner 1
  Provider race
    Caucasian 11
    Asian-American 1
  Provider gender
    Female 12
  Resident training year
    Post-graduate year 1 1
    Post-graduate year 2 0
    Post-graduate year 3 2
    Post-graduate year 4 4
  Nurse-midwife mean years of experience 9.2(1–20; median 10)
  Nurse practitioner years of experience 8
Patient Participants (N=27)
  Age (years) 25(18–34)
  Race
    Caucasian 13
    African-American 14
  Marital Status
    Single 26
    Married 1
  Pregnancy history
    Nulliparous 9
    Prior births 18
  Substance use disclosures
    Smoking only 16
    Alcohol only 1
    Illicit drugs only 1
    Smoking and illicit drugs 5
    Smoking, illicit drugs and alcohol 4