Table 2.
Alcohol consumption of persons in bereavement
| Bereaved for one year | Bereaved for two years | Bereaved for three years | Non-bereaved-reference category | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| AUDIT total score | ||||||||
| Mean | 4.83 | 1.29 | 6.59 | 0.96 | 3.72 | 1.01 | 3.99 | 1.11 |
| SD | 4.37 | 2.24 | 6.95 | 1.59 | 3.60 | 1.34 | 4.13 | 1.99 |
| At-risk | 18,4% | 2,8% | 29,8% | 1,4% | 11,7% | 1,0% | 12,9% | 2,0% |
| Wald chi-squares | 1.433 | 0.598 | 11.450 | 0.347 | 0.032 | 0.338 | ||
| Odds Ratio | 1.445 | 1.569 | 2,783*** | 0.464 | 0.930 | 0.583 | ||
| Hazardous alcohol use | ||||||||
| Mean | 4.88 | 1.47 | 5.63 | 1.24 | 4.32 | 1.33 | 4.45 | 1.29 |
| SD | 3.25 | 2.02 | 3.85 | 2.06 | 3.34 | 1.65 | 3.40 | 1.95 |
| Wald chi-squares | 1.316 | 1.348 | 7,871 | < 0.001 | 0.112 | 1.074 | ||
| Odds Ratio | 1.27 | 1.25 | 1.94** | 1.0 | 0.93 | 1.23 | ||
| Dependence symptoms | ||||||||
| Mean | 0.24 | 0.00 | 0.30 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.01 |
| SD | 0.68 | 0.00 | 0.76 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.42 | 0.15 |
| Wald chi-squares | 4.075 | < 0.001 | 11.075 | < 0.001 | 1.811 | < 0.001 | ||
| Odds Ratio | 2.07* | 1.00 | 3.45*** | 1.00 | 0.19 | 1.00 | ||
| Harmful alcohol use | ||||||||
| Mean | 0.39 | 0.00 | 0.40 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.14 | 0.02 |
| SD | 0.86 | 0.00 | 1.01 | 0.09 | 0.23 | 0.11 | 0.50 | 0.20 |
| Wald chi-squares | 10.668 | < 0.001 | 6.385 | 0.111 | 0.892 | 0.072 | ||
| Odds Ratio | 2.64*** | 1.00 | 2.45* | 0.63 | 0.57 | 0.78 | ||
Ordinal regression model *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001, df = 1. (Adjusted for age and education).