Table 2.
Patient-perceived benefits and barriers towards TSGs in relation to their intention to participate in TSGs post-discharge, N (%)
| Items | a | LOWb N = 43 |
MODb N = 41 |
HIGHb N = 55 |
Total | Gammac |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perceived benefits | ||||||
| Going to AA/NA gives me courage to change (N = 138) | Disagree | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 (8) | |
| N/N | 24 | 19 | 6 | 49 (36) | 0.79 | |
| Agree | 8 | 22 | 48 | 78 (57) | ||
| If I go to AA/NA, I will find people who can guide me in how to be sober (N = 135) | Disagree | 8 | 1 | 0 | 9 (7) | |
| N/N | 18 | 9 | 0 | 27 (20) | 0.78 | |
| Agree | 16 | 31 | 52 | 99 (73) | ||
| I will feel better about myself if I go to AA/NA (N = 139) | Disagree | 16 | 1 | 2 | 19 (14) | |
| N/N | 21 | 17 | 6 | 44 (32) | 0.71 | |
| Agree | 6 | 23 | 47 | 76 (55) | ||
| In AA/NA, I will find people who understand me (N = 138) | Disagree | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 (4) | |
| N/N | 18 | 6 | 1 | 25 (18) | 0.62 | |
| Agree | 21 | 35 | 52 | 108 (78) | ||
| I know someone who has been helped by going to AA/NA (N = 138) | Disagree | 19 | 10 | 5 | 34 (25) | |
| N/N | 6 | 9 | 3 | 18 (13) | 0.51 | |
| Agree | 18 | 22 | 46 | 86 (62) | ||
| Perceived barriers | ||||||
| I feel like I do not belong at AA/NA meetings (N = 139) | Disagree | 8 | 18 | 42 | 68 (49) | |
| N/N | 15 | 21 | 9 | 45 (32) | - 0.65 | |
| Agree | 20 | 2 | 4 | 26 (19) | ||
| Going to AA/NA makes me feel depressed (N = 138) | Disagree | 11 | 27 | 44 | 82 (59) | |
| N/N | 19 | 11 | 10 | 40 (29) | - 0.62 | |
| Agree | 12 | 3 | 1 | 16 (12) | ||
| I do not want people to know that I am going to AA/NA (N = 139) | Disagree | 10 | 22 | 37 | 69 (50) | |
| N/N | 10 | 11 | 9 | 30 (22) | - 0.43 | |
| Agree | 23 | 8 | 9 | 40 (29) | ||
| Going to AA/NA requires changes that are too difficult (N = 139) | Disagree | 9 | 14 | 33 | 56 (40) | |
| N/N | 19 | 20 | 13 | 52 (37) | - 0.41 | |
| Agree | 15 | 7 | 9 | 31 (22) | ||
| Going to AA/NA can be embarrassing to me (N = 139) | Disagree | 9 | 21 | 32 | 62 (45) | |
| N/N | 12 | 6 | 7 | 25 (18) | - 0.36 | |
| Agree | 22 | 14 | 16 | 52 (37) |
a For descriptive purposes, the original scale has been coded pooling strongly agree and agree responses, and the strongly disagree and disagree responses. N/N = neither disagreed nor agreed
b LOW, Low score < 3; MOD, intermediate score = 3 - 5; HIGH, high score > 5, on a 7-point Likert scale
c Gamma-values were obtained from an analysis of the full ordinal scale for independent variables. All items were significant at the p < 0.001 level.