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Published in final edited form as: J Subst Abuse Treat. 2011 Apr 12;41(2):105–114. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2011.02.011

Table 4. Changes in Alcohol Outcome Measures Between Study Arms.

	Changes within Arms		Difference in Changes Between Arms
	Mean Change (SD)	Mean Change (SD)	Mean Difference (95% CI)		Mean Difference (95% CI)
	Active Control	Brief Intervention	Unadjusted	P-value	Adjusted^*	P-value
Drinks/drinking day change	-.31 (1.4)	-.18 (1.4)	-.13 (-.38, .11)	.28	-.06 (0.3, .18)	.63
% Drinking days change	-1.3 (1.7)	-4.3 (.21)	3.0 (-.3, 6.0)	.07	3.0 (-.1, 6.0)	.07
Binge change	-1.9 (13.9)	-1.4 (24.3)	-.50 (-3.9, 2.9)	.78	-2.2 (-4.9, .54)	.11
Sensible drinking weeks change	-.71 (5.8)	-.75 (5.8)	0.04 (-.97, 1.1)	.84	0.27 (-1.2, .65)	.57

Models were adjusted for each respective baseline drinking measure, disease (diabetes, infertility, or osteoporosis versus hypertension), age, married versus not, race (any minority versus Caucasian), Hispanic versus non-Hispanic, education, children, employment status, MCS score, PCS score, lifetime substance use disorder diagnoses (alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, opiates, polysubstance)