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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2015 Jul 24;39(9):1698–1704. doi: 10.1111/acer.12801

Table 2.

Service utilization and all covariates before and after PS weighting between DSM-5 positive (N=800) and negative (N=12,365)

Before PS weighting After PS weighting

DSM-5
Positive
DSM-5
Negative
P Standardized
difference
DSM-5
Positive
DSM-5
Negative
P Standardized
Difference
Sex: Male 0.68 0.47 <0.001 0.450 0.68 0.68 0.967 0.002
Ethnicity: White 0.67 0.70 0.235 0.061 0.67 0.67 0.978 0.002
 Black 0.12 0.11 0.611 0.025 0.12 0.12 0.850 0.010
 Hispanics 0.15 0.13 0.187 0.060 0.15 0.14 0.945 0.003
 Others 0.07 0.07 0.995 0.000 0.07 0.06 0.935 0.005
Age: 18-29 0.48 0.17 <0.001 0.684 0.48 0.48 0.963 0.003
 30-49 0.40 0.39 0.728 0.018 0.40 0.39 0.950 0.003
 >50 0.11 0.42 <0.001 0.724 0.11 0.12 0.703 0.015
Education: < HS grad 0.12 0.13 0.745 0.018 0.12 0.12 0.904 0.007
 HS grad 0.30 0.29 0.742 0.018 0.30 0.30 0.881 0.009
 Some college 0.31 0.27 0.078 0.096 0.31 0.31 0.915 0.006
 College grad 0.26 0.31 0.019 0.112 0.26 0.27 0.708 0.019
Employment: Full time 0.55 0.47 0.002 0.163 0.55 0.56 0.916 0.006
 Part time 0.17 0.11 0.013 0.147 0.17 0.17 0.983 0.001
 Retired 0.02 0.17 <0.001 0.514 0.02 0.02 0.994 0.000
 Other employ status 0.26 0.24 0.545 0.035 0.26 0.25 0.920 0.006
Marital: Married/cohabit 0.46 0.64 <0.001 0.370 0.46 0.46 0.925 0.005
 Separate/divorce/widow 0.09 0.15 <0.001 0.181 0.09 0.09 0.859 0.009
 Never married 0.39 0.16 <0.001 0.542 0.39 0.39 0.980 0.001
Family income: <$20k 0.22 0.20 0.352 0.050 0.22 0.22 0.987 0.001
 $20-40k 0.22 0.19 0.296 0.056 0.22 0.22 0.990 0.001
 $40-70k 0.26 0.26 0.807 0.013 0.26 0.26 0.969 0.002
 >$70k 0.19 0.21 0.521 0.033 0.19 0.20 0.879 0.008
 Missing 0.11 0.14 0.052 0.106 0.11 0.11 0.873 0.010
Urbanicity: Urban 0.80 0.79 0.396 0.045 0.80 0.80 0.972 0.002
Health insurance: None 0.21 0.13 <0.001 0.208 0.21 0.22 0.910 0.006
 Private 0.63 0.60 0.205 0.067 0.63 0.64 0.829 0.013
 Public 0.10 0.17 <0.001 0.227 0.10 0.10 0.910 0.006
 Both private and public 0.02 0.07 <0.001 0.256 0.02 0.02 0.921 0.004
Body Mass Index (log)1 3.26 3.29 0.042 0.110 3.26 3.26 0.949 0.001
Ever hypertension 0.20 0.30 <0.001 0.224 0.20 0.20 0.938 0.004
Ever heart problem 0.06 0.12 <0.001 0.202 0.06 0.06 0.993 0.001
Ever diabetes 0.04 0.10 <0.001 0.243 0.04 0.04 0.909 0.006

ER visit: Any visit last year 18.24% 12.34% 0.004 18.24% 11.64% 0.003
   # of visits (log) 1 0.17 0.12 0.011 0.17 0.11 0.007
Primary care: Any last year 31.85% 32.47% 0.802 31.85% 27.71% 0.114
  # of visits (log) 1 0.45 0.46 0.763 0.45 0.37 0.050
Hospitalization: Any last year 11.19% 7.89% 0.071 11.19% 6.65% 0.019
  # of hospital days (log) 1 0.13 0.13 0.728 0.13 0.09 0.098
# of total service (log) 1 0.58 0.57 0.770 0.58 0.49 0.062
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Transformed by natural log to adjust for skewed distribution. Number of visits was added by one first before log-transformation.