Table 1.
Characteristics of persons by alcohol use.
| Alcohol Use at Baseline |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic at baseline | N | Heavy (n=236) |
Moderate (n=360) |
Abstinent (n=627) |
p- value* |
| Row Percents or mean (SD) |
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| Gender | |||||
| Female | 321 | 21.2 | 29.3 | 49.6 | 0.0169 |
| Male | 902 | 14.02 | 29.91 | 56.07 | |
| Race | |||||
| White | 905 | 19.9 | 30.8 | 49.3 | 0.0938 |
| Black | 241 | 19.5 | 25.3 | 55.2 | |
| Other | 73 | 12.3 | 24.7 | 63.0 | |
| Injury Severity | |||||
| C1–C4, Non-ambulatory | 125 | 8.8 | 26.4 | 64.8 | |
| C5–C8, Non-ambulatory | 322 | 19.6 | 31.1 | 49.4 | 0.0127 |
| NonC, Non-ambulatory | 417 | 19.2 | 28.1 | 52.8 | |
| Ambulatory | 359 | 22.8 | 30.6 | 46.5 | |
| Chronological Age | 1223 | 39.7±12.6 | 43.3±12.7 | 47.5±13.1 | <.0001 |
| Age at Injury | 1223 | 27.7±11.1 | 30.8±13.3 | 37.3±13.2 | <.0001 |
| Household income | |||||
| <$25,000 | 484 | 18.6 | 22.7 | 58.7 | |
| $25,000–$74,999 | 472 | 17.4 | 29.5 | 53.2 | <.0001 |
| >$75,000 | 267 | 24.0 | 41.6 | 34.5 | |
| Education Level | |||||
| < High School | 166 | 19.8 | 13.9 | 66.3 | |
| High School/Associates | 719 | 18.5 | 26.5 | 54.9 | <.0001 |
| Bachelor + | 338 | 20.7 | 43.2 | 36.1 | |
| Employment | |||||
| Currently employed | 327 | 22.9 | 40.4 | 35.8 | |
| Employed post-inj (not curr) | 270 | 22.6 | 32.2 | 45.2 | <.0001 |
| Not employed post-injury | 620 | 15.3 | 22.6 | 62.1 | |
| ZKPQ | |||||
| Impulsive Sensation Seeking | 1223 | 5.1±2.8 | 4.4±2.6 | 3.7±2.6 | <.0001 |
| Neuroticism-Anxiety | 1223 | 2.7±2.6 | 2.2±2.5 | 2.9±2.6 | 0.0005 |
| Aggression-Hostility | 1223 | 4.9±2.7 | 3.6±2.6 | 3.5±2.7 | <.0001 |
| Activity | 1185 | 4.9±2.9 | 4.8±2.8 | 4.7±2.7 | 0.5845 |
| Sociability | 1192 | 5.3±2.4 | 5.3±2.4 | 4.9±2.5 | 0.0212 |
| Purpose in Life | 1186 | 35.6±8.5 | 37.4±7.7 | 35.9±8.7 | 0.0102 |
*
p-value from Chi-square test of association for categorical variables and from ANOVA test for continuous variables