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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 17.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2008 Jul;32(7):1271–1283. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00682.x

Table 3.

Treatment Outcomes

NX versus PL
NX versus NX + Ser
Placebo
(n = 34)
NX
(n = 34)
NX + SER
(n = 33)
p-value OR/HR/ES (LL/UL) p-value OR/HR/ES (LL/UL)
ITT sample
  Primary outcomes
    Total abstinence (n, %) 4(12) 12(35) 10 (30) 0.027 4.37 (1.19/16.11)a 0.634 1.30 (0.45/3.77)a
    Relapse to a heavy 28 (82) 22 (65) 22 (67) 0.093 1.64 (0.92/2.90)b 0.874 0.95 (0.53/1.73)b
    drinking day (n, %)
  Secondary outcomes
    Percent days abstinent
    (Mean, SD)
85.7 (2.96) 94.8 (3.09) 96.3 (3.08) 0.024 0.53(0.03/1.02)c 0.710 0.09 (−0.40/0.58)c
    Percent days heavy drinking
    (Mean, SD)
11.2 (2.92) 3.7 (3.02) 3.0 (3.04) 0.059 0.44 (−0.05/0.93)c 0.859 0.04 (−0.45/0.53)c
    Drinks per drinking day
    (Mean, SD)
3.9 (0.82) 3.6 (0.85) 1.9 (0.85) 0.728 0.08 (−0.40/0.56)c 0.131 0.35 (−0.14/0.85)c
    GGT change from baseline
    (Mean, SD)
19.2 (13.46) 23.2 (13.39) 43.2(13.61) 0.964 0.05 (−0.44/0.55)c 0.427 0.26 (−0.23/0.76)c
    DrInC (n, % reporting
    any problems)
22 (76) 14(45) 14 (47) 0.020 0.264 (0.09/0.81)a 0.948 0.97 (0.35/2.68)a
    Alcohol Urge Questionnaire
    (Mean, SD)
12.8 (0.96) 12.3 (0.97) 13.5(1.03) 0.671 0.11 (−0.42/0.64)c 0.353 0.23 (−0.30/0.77)c
    CES-Depression (Mean, SD) 10.1 (0.93) 10.9 (0.94) 9.8 (0.97) 0.520 0.16 (−0.37/0.69)c 0.383 0.22 (−0.32/0.76)c
(n = 22) (n = 24) (n = 22)

Native subsample
  Primary outcomes
    Total abstinence (n, %) 4(18) 8(33) 8(36) 0.224 2.42 (0.58/10.11)a 0.880 0.91 (0.26/3.20)a
    Relapse to a heavy drinking
    day (n, %)
17(77) 16(67) 14 (64) 0.224 1.56 (0.76/3.20)b 0.972 0.99 (0.48/2.04)b
  Secondary outcomes
    Percent days abstinent 88.8 (3.03) 96.6 (2.90) 96.9 (3.02) 0.060 0.56 (−0.05/1.16)c 0.930 0.03 (−0.57/0.62)c
    Percent days heavy drinking 8.5 (2.91) 2.8 (2.76) 0.6 (2.90) 0.142 0.43 (−0.17/1.03)c 0.578 0.16 (−0.43/0.75)c
    Drinks per drinking day 4.2 (0.93) 4.0 (0.89) 1.9 (0.92) 0.830 0.06 (−0.53/0.65)c 0.095 0.50 (−0.10/1.10)c
    GGT change from baseline 21.8(18.81) 17.2 (16.98) 61.0(18.52) 0.975 0.06 (−0.55/0.66)c 0.141 0.54 (−0.08/1.16)c
    DrInC (n, % reporting any problems) 13(72) 8(38) 8(42) 0.026 0.20 (0.05/0.83)a 0.715 0.785 (0.21/2.88)a
    Alcohol Urge Questionnaire 11.2 (1.25) 12.6(1.16) 13.4(1.33) 0.405 0.27 (−0.39/0.93)c 0.637 0.15 (−0.50/0.81)c
    CES-Depression 10.2 (1.21) 11.8 (1.12) 10.2 (1.21) 0.295 0.34 (−0.32/0.99)c 0.310 0.33 (−0.32/0.98)c

OR, odds ratio; HR, hazard ratio; ES, effect size estimates are reported as Cohen’s d-values; LL/UL, lower limit/upper limit.

a

OR.

b

HR.

c

ES.