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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 27.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2010 Sep 22;34(12):2097–2105. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01306.x

Table 1.

Demographics and Neuropsychological Measures – Treatment-Naïve Alcoholics vs. Non-Alcoholic Controls

Variables Treatment-Naïve Non-Alcoholic Controls % Effect Size (partial eta square)

Men (n=33) Women (n=25) Men (n=33) Women (n=25) Group Gender Group × Gender
Demographics
Age (years) 32.32 ± 8.6 30.40 ± 8.5 32.25 ± 8.32 30.45 ± 8.51 0.0 1.2 0.0
Years Education 16.36 ± 1.60 16.00 ± 1.76 16.53 ± 1.96 16.58 ± 1.50 1.2 0.2 0.4
Proportion 1st degree Relative Problem
Drinkers a 0.14 ± 0.20 0.25 ± 0.31 0.12 ± 0.18 0.14 ± 0.26 2.1 2.1
AMNART 1.30 ± 0.34 1.16 ± 0.37 1.21 ± 0.42 1.11 ± 0.45 0.8 2.2 0.1

Neuropsychological Measures
Average z-score 0.25 ± 0.34 0.27 ± 031 0.17 ± 0.51 0.17 ± 0.35 1.4 0.0 0.0
Attention 0.20 ± 0.40 0.17 ± 0.45 -0.24 ± 0.62 -0.08 ± 0.45 11.3** 0.4 0.9
Auditory Working Memory 0.12 ± 0.76 0.17 ± 0.45 0.11 ± 0.88 -0.29 ± 0.97 1.8 1.0 1.6
Verbal 0.69 ± 1.00 0.80 ± 0.86 0.61 ± 1.08 0.58 ± 1.22 0.3 0.2 0.0
Abstraction/Cognitive Flexibility 0.13 ± 0.55 0.12 ± 0.48 0.12 ± 0.62 -0.01 ± 0.49 0.4 0.4 0.3
Psychomotor -0.22 ± 0.69 0.18 ± 0.62 -0.03 ± 0.94 -0.09 ± 0.85 0.1 1.2 2.1
Immediate Memory 0.70 ± 0.44 0.70 ± 0.33 0.61 ± 0.65 0.61 ± 0.67 0.3 0.1 0.1
Delayed Memory 0.55 ± 0.70 0.35 ± 0.73 0.26 ± 0.87 0.58 ± 0.72 0.0 0.2 2.8
Reaction Time -0.13 ± 0.51 -0.39 ± 0.70 -0.05 ± 0.63 -0.17 ± 0.63 1.5 2.4 0.3
Spatial Processing 0.28 ± 0.52 0.15 ± 0.46 0.30 ± 0.57 0.01 ± 0.58 0.3 3.7* 0.5

p-value
Global Clinical Impairment Score 0.36 ± 0.70 0.36 ± 0.76 0.91 ± 1.40 0.71 ± 1.23 .042 .55 n/a

Measures are reported mean ± standard deviation. Effect is significant:

*

p≤0.05,

**

p≤0.01

a

n = 32 for Male Treatment-Naïve Alcoholics