Table 2.

Associations between race/ethnicity and gender and reasons for not seeking help for alcohol problems (weighted sample): NESARC Wave 1; 2001–2002. (N = 1,012)

	Reasons for not seeking help for alcohol problems
Variables	Structural	Attitudinal	Readiness for change
Race/Ethnicity
White (Ref.)	1	1	1
African American	1.19**	0.65***	0.92
	[1.05,1.34]	[0.57,0.73]	[0.81,1.04]
Latino	0.99	0.74*	0.73*
	[0.79,1.23]	[0.57,0.96]	[0.55,0.97]
Gender
Female (Ref.)	1	1	1
Male	0.98	0.46***	0.94
	[0.82,1.16]	[0.37,0.58]	[0.81,1.11]

Note: CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio. Models used logistic regression and adjusted for age, urbanicity, insurance status, education status, household income, marital status, mental health disorder, and substance use disorder.

^*p < 0.05

^**p < 0.01

^***p < 0.001