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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2013 Jan 17;131(0):127–135. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.12.008

Table 5c.

Covariates associated with opioid-free time, defined as the duration of opioid-free time while on prescribed buprenorphine

Covariates Proportion of all urine samples collected that were negative for opioids X [duration of BMT - gap times] (Duration of opioid-free time)
Univariate Analysis Multivariate Analysis
OLS OLS
Beta 95% CI P value Beta 95% CI P value
Age 2.44 (0.04, 4.82) 0.05 2.08 (−0.29, 4.44) 0.09
Gender
 Male Ref
 Female 28.36 (−19.0, 75.8) 0.24
Site
 Site 1 Ref
 Site 2 16.58 (−28.1, 61.2) 0.47
Specialty
 Psychiatry Ref
 Primary Care Provider 27.37 (−20.0, 75.3) 0.26
Baseline Cocaine Screen
 Negative Ref Ref
 Positive −50.05 (−102, 2.05) 0.06 −50.42 (−99.1, −0.36) <0.05
Any Cocaine Screen
 Negative Ref
 Positive −41.60 (−86.1, 3.52) 0.07 *
Receipt of on-site substance abuse counseling
 No Ref Ref
 Yes 44.65 (0.90, 88.3) 0.05 39.87 (−3.55, 83.3) 0.07
Mood disorder
 No Ref Ref
 Yes 72.00 (23.8, 120.) <0.01 65.9 (18.23, 113.6) <0.01
Prescribed psychiatric medication
 No Ref
 Yes 62.72 (17.2, 108.) 0.01 *
HIV-infected
 No Ref
 Yes −11.04 (−39.0, 17.8) 0.45
HCV-infected
 No Ref
 Yes −0.35 (−18.2, 17.9) 0.97
AIC Goodness of Fit 3512.2
*

Non-significant variables were excluded by AIC/criteria in the multivariate model

BMT = buprenorphine maintenance therapy; Ref = referent; AIC = Akaike Information Criterion; GLM=Generalized Linear Model; OLS= Ordinary Least Square Regression