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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ethn Health. 2017 Feb 9;23(5):503–510. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2017.1290215

Table 1.

Association of baseline characteristics of index participants and their network members with alcohol consumption frequency

Index participants Network participants
Frequency of alcohol consumption Never (n=96) Monthly or less(n=68) 2-4 times a month(n=54) >= 2 times a week(n=99) P-value Never (n=111) Monthly or less(n=51) 2-4 times a month(n=48) >= 2 times a week(n=107) P-value
Age: Mean (SD) 42 (6.14) 42 (8.27) 41 (6.99) 43 (5.75) 0.650 46 (10.59) 42 (7.62) 40 (10.02) 43 (9.46) 0.013
Gender
male 0 0 0 0 55 (49.6%) 26 (51.0%) 28 (58.3%) 64 (59.8%)
female 96 (100%) 68 (100%) 54 (100%) 99 (100%) - 56 (50.4%) 25 (49.0%) 20 (41.7%) 43 (40.2%) 0.415
Employment
yes 85 (88.5%) 64 (94.1%) 48 (88.9%) 89 (89.9%) 96 (86.5%) 41 (80.4%) 39 (81.2%) 83 (77.6%)
no 11 (11.5%) 4 (5.9%) 6 (11.1%) 10 (10.1%) 0.660 15 (13.5%) 10 (19.6%) 9 (18.8%) 24 (22.4%) 0.394
Smoking
yes 76 (79.2%) 56 (82.3%) 49 (90.7%) 93 (93.9%) 89 (80.2%) 36 (70.6%) 38 (79.2%) 86 (80.4%)
no 20 (20.8%) 12 (17.7%) 5 (9.3%) 6 (6.1%) 0.012 22 (19.8%) 15 (29.4%) 10 (20.8%) 21 (19.6%) 0.510
Depressive symptoms
yes 58 (60.4%) 39 (57.4%) 28 (51.8%) 61 (61.6%) 52 (46.8%) 24 (47.1%) 21 (43.7%) 51 (47.7%)
no 38 (39.6%) 29 (42.6%) 26 (48.2%) 38 (38.4%) 0.669 59 (53.2%) 27 (52.9%) 27 (56.3%) 56 (52.3%) 0.976
Injection drug use
yes 0 0 0 0 7 (6.3%) 8 (15.7%) 4 (8.3%) 10 (9.4%)
no 96 (100%) 68 (100%) 54 (100%) 99 (100%) - 104 (93.7%) 43 (84.3%) 44 (91.7%) 97 (90.6%) 0.290