TABLE 3.
Unadjusted prevalence of documented brief intervention and addiction treatment among OEF/OIF patients in the Department of Veterans Affairs with and without traumatic brain injury (TBI) who screened positive for alcohol misusea
| Women (N=2,674) |
Men (N=52,204) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBI (N=126) |
No TBI (N=2,548) |
TBI (N=5,777) |
No TBI (N=46,427) |
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| Variable | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | p | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | p |
| Documented brief intervention | ||||||||||
| AUDIT-C ≥5 (moderate misuse) | 80.2 | 73.2–87.1 | 76.4 | 74.8–78.1 | ns | 78.3 | 77.3–79.4 | 78.4 | 78.0–78.7 | ns |
| AUDIT-C ≥8 (severe misuse) | 73.2 | 60.0–86.7 | 77.4 | 74.4–80.4 | ns | 80.1 | 78.5–81.7 | 79.2 | 78.6–79.8 | ns |
| Documented addiction treatmentb | ||||||||||
| AUDIT-C ≥5 (moderate misuse) | 19.0 | 12.2–25.9 | 10.4 | 9.2–11.5 | <.01 | 13.8 | 12.9–14.7 | 8.8 | 8.5–9.1 | <.001 |
| AUDIT-C ≥8 (severe misuse) | 36.6 | 21.8–51.3 | 21.1 | 18.2–24.0 | <.05 | 20.0 | 18.4–21.6 | 15.4 | 14.9–15.9 | <.001 |
a
OEF, Operation Enduring Freedom;OIF, Operation Iraqi Freedom. All patients were screened with the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test alcohol consumption questions (AUDIT-C) between January 1 and December 31, 2012. Analytic samples for the AUDIT-C moderate and severe groups are not mutually exclusive.
b
Determined by documentation of clinic stop codes indicating one or more visits to a Department of Veterans Affairs addiction treatment clinic in the 90 days following their AUDIT-C screen date.