Table 3.

Simple Rank Tests for Brief Intervention and alcohol outcomes.

	Assessment Only (n=21)	Brief Intervention (n=16)
Decrease in number of drinks on a drinking day
n	21	16
Median (Q1–Q3)	0.2 (0.0–0.5)	0.7 (0.2–1.8)
Mean (SD)	0.4 (1.0)	1.0 (1.0)
P-value		0.040
Decrease in % of drinking days in past 6 months
n	21	16
Median (Q1–Q3)	0.1 (0.0–0.2)	0.1 (0.0–0.3)
Mean (SD)	0.1 (0.2)	0.2 (0.3)
P-value		0.177
Decrease in number of weeks drinking above SDL in past 6 months
n	21	16
Median (Q1–Q3)	0.0 (0.0–2.0)	0.5 (0.0–7.0)
Mean (SD)	1.7 (3.5)	5.6 (9.0)
P-value		0.127
Decrease in # of binges in past 6 months
n	21	16
Median (Q1–Q3)	0.0 (0.0–2.0)	0.5 (0.0–4.0)
Mean (SD)	1.2 (4.5)	14.5 (44.4)
P-value		0.198

One-sided P-values are from Wilcoxon exact tests.