Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2017 Jul-Aug;38(6):417–423. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000461

Table 3.

Healthcare Provider Screening and Messaging/Education about Alcohol Use by Sociodemographic Characteristics

Reported Messages Received Alcohol use is not healthy Alcohol use could make ADHD symptoms worse Alcohol could interfere with or get in the way of my medications I should not drink at all or I should stop or cut down my drinking

Covariates Yes
(n=26)
No
(n=70)
p-valueb Yes (n=9) No
(n=87)
p-valueb Yes
(n=14)
No
(n=82)
p-valueb Yes
(n=5)
No
(N=91)
p-valueb

Age in years, Mean (SD) 16.5 (0.99) 15.4 (1.82) <0.001c 17.0 (0.87) 15.6 (1.7) <0.001c 16.8 (0.80) 15.6 (1.75) <0.001c 16.6 (0.55) 15.7 (1.73) 0.015c

Gendera
 Male 18 (69.2) 41 (58.6) 0.340 6 (66.7) 53 (60.9) 0.736 8 (57.1) 51 (62.2) 0.720 4 (80.0) 55 (60.4) 0.382
 Female 8 (30.8) 29 (41.4) 3 (33.3) 34 (39.1) 6 (42.8) 31 (37.8) 1 (20.0) 36 (39.5)

Race/ethnicitya:
 White, non-Hispanic 21 (80.8) 54 (77.1) 0.703 9 (100.0) 66 (75.9) 0.095 12 (85.7) 63 (76.8) 0.457 3 (60.0) 72 (79.1) 0.314
 Other 5 (19.2) 16 (22.8) 0 (0.0) 21 (24.1) 2 (14.3) 19 (23.1) 2 (40.0) 19 (20.9)

Past year alcohol usea:
 Any 16 (61.5) 14 (20.0) <0.001 7 (77.8) 23 (26.4) 0.002 10 (71.4) 20 (24.4) <0.001 5 (100.0) 25 (27.5) <0.001
 None 10 (38.5) 56 (80.0) 2 (22.2) 64 (73.5) 4 (28.6) 62 (75.6) 0 (0.0) 66 (72.5)

ADHD medication usea:
 Any 23 (88.5) 58 (82.8) 0.502 7 (77.8) 74 (85.0) 0.567 12 (85.7) 69 (84.1) 0.881 4 (80.0) 77 (84.6) 0.782
 None 3 (11.5) 12 (17.1) 2 (22.2) 13 (14.9) 2 (14.3) 13 (15.8) 1 (20.0) 14 (15.4)
a

Data are presented as number n (column percent)

b

P-value for chi-square test, unless otherwise indicated

c

Two-sample t test

Shaded cells indicate that the p-value is statistically significant (<0.05)