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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2012 Aug 6;27(1):90–101. doi: 10.1037/a0029423

Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics and Group Differences in Key Baseline Variables as a Function of Panic Disorder Status.

Mean (SD) or % Observed
Range
Test for Group Difference
Sex (% female) 46.6% χ2 = .946, p = .42
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 36.2%
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 63.8%

Age 29.12 (11.79) 18 – 62 t(56) = −.26, p = .79
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 29.67 (11.41) 18 – 54
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 28.81 (12.15) 18 – 62

Group Assignment (% SMD) χ2 = .18, p = .79
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 42.9%
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 48.6%

Cigarettes Smoked Daily 19.72 (7.99) 7–50 t(56) = 1.39, p = .17
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 17.81 (5.57) 9–30
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 20.8 (12.15) 7–50

Nicotine Dependence 3.93 (1.72) 0–8 t(56) = .09, p = .93
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 3.90 (1.67) 1–8
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 3.95 (1.76) 0–7

Age First Smoked 14.25 (3.97) 8–39 t(55) = 1.55, p = .13
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 13.19 (2.29) 8–18
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 14.86 (4.59) 9–39

Age Regular Smoker 16.40 (3.61) 10–39 t(55) = 1.03, p = .31
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 15.76 (2.28) 12–22
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 16.78 (4.18) 10–39

Years Regular Smoker 11.96 (10.98) 1–48 t(55) = −.67, p = .51
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 13.24 (11.28) 2–39
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 11.22 (10.89) 1–48

PDSS Total Score
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 11.20 (3.84) 4–17 t(54) = −9.07, p < .001, d = 2.55
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 1.64 (3.67) 0–16

AUDIT Total Score 8.88 (5.10) 2–22 t(38) = −2.31, p < .05, d = .71
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 11.29 (5.98) 3–22
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 7.58 (4.13) 2–18

Marijuana Use (Past 30 days – %Yes) 55.3% χ2 = .74, p = .54
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 47.1%
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 60.0%

Negative Affectivity 23.78 (8.71) 8–39 t(56) = −5.22, p < .001, d = 1.45
  Positive Panic Disorder Group 30.33 (6.70) 16–39
  Negative Panic Disorder Group 20.05 (7.47) 8–36

Note: SMD = Smoking Deprivation Group; Cigarettes Smoked Daily = Number reported smoking upon study entry; CO PPM = Parts Per Million of Carbon Monoxide in Lungs at Baseline Indexed with a Carbon Monoxide Monitor (Bedfont Smokylizer, SN: A36688); Nicotine Dependence = Fagerstöm Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND; Heatherton et al.,1991); Age First Smoked, Age Regular Smoker and Years Regular Smoker (Smoking History Questionnaire; Brown et al., 2002), PDSS Total = Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS; Shear et al., 1997, 2001); AUDIT Total = Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test Total Score (Babor et al., 1992); Marijuana Use (Past 30 days - % Yes) (The Marijuana Smoking History Questionnaire; Bonn-Miller & Zvolensky, 2005); Negative Affectivity (BFI-Neuroticism = Big Five Inventory – Neuroticism Subscale; John & Srivastava, 1999).d = Cohen’s d index of effect size.