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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2008 Nov;103(11):1801–1808. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02345.x

Table 1.

Demographics of Oral Naltrexone Users in Relation to Persistence Status

Patients P value

Non-persistent
(n=976)
Persistent
(n=162)
Gender 367 (38%) 70 (43%) 0.2
 Female, n
Age, years 44.4 (10.7) 47.6 (9.5) 0.0003
 Mean (SD)
Geographic Region, n 0.011
 Northeast 227 (23%) 49 (30%) 0.06
 North Central 360 (37%) 54 (33%) 0.4
 South 264 (27%) 29 (18%) 0.007
 West 125 (13%) 30 (19%) 0.08
Employee Type, n 0.007
 Salaried 253 (26%) 55 (34%) 0.03
 Hourly 336 (34%) 34 (21%) 0.0002
 Other 48 (5%) 8 (5%) 1.0
 Unknown 339 (35%) 65 (40%) 0.2
Employment Status, n 0.028
 Active 757 (78%) 110 (68%) 0.01
 Retiree 194 (20%) 46 (28%) 0.03
 Other/Unknown 25 (3%) 6 (4%) 0.5
Median Household Income*
 Mean (SD) $48,379 ($20,204) $54,138 ($22,683) 0.003
% College Education*
 Mean (SD) 27 (17) 30 (18) 0.01
*

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