TABLE 1.
Individual personalized feedback items, participant reactions to feedback, and drinking variables by severity of feedback
| Serious PF (N = 30) |
Average PF (N = 60) |
Overall sample (N = 90) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | M or % | (SD) | M or % | (SD) | M or % | (SD) |
| Feedback items | ||||||
| No. of standard drinks/weeka | 61.3 | (43.0) | 36.0 | (11.2) | 44.4 | (28.8) |
| Percentile rankb | 97.4 | (1.8) | 94.5 | (2.9) | 95.4 | (3.0) |
| BAC typical weekc | .19 | (.10) | .11 | (.05) | .14 | (.08) |
| Tolerance leveld | ||||||
| Low | 0.0 | 3.4 | 2.2 | |||
| Medium | 10.0 | 20.3 | 17.0 | |||
| High | 6.7 | 37.0 | 27.0 | |||
| Very high | 83.3 | 39.0 | 53.9 | |||
| Other drug risk | ||||||
| Low | 66.7 | 45.0 | 52.2 | |||
| Medium | 23.3 | 40.0 | 34.4 | |||
| High | 10.0 | 15.0 | 13.3 | |||
| Family risk score | 4.7 | (3.6) | 4.3 | (3.1) | 4.4 | (3.2) |
| Alcohol Dependence Scale | 14.6 | (4.5) | 12.9 | (6.4) | 13.4 | (5.9) |
| Short Inventory of Problems | 17.3 | (8.6) | 14.8 | (6.9) | 15.6 | (7.5) |
| ≥1 abnormal liver enzymee | 63.3 | 27.1 | 39.3 | |||
| Participant reactions | ||||||
| Developed discrepancy | ||||||
| Expressed surprisef | 3.0 | (1.2) | 3.2 | (1.2) | 3.16 | (1.2) |
| Expressed concerng | 66.7 | 54.5 | 58.5 | |||
| Better tdan expectedg,h | 7.4 | 27.3 | 20.7 | |||
| Worse than expectedg | 51.9 | 47.3 | 49.0 | |||
| Perceived accuracy of feedbackf | 3.5 | (0.9) | 3.4 | (1.0) | 3.46 | (1.0) |
| Drinking variables | ||||||
| Week pre-PF MDDD | 6.8 | (3.0) | 5.9 | (3.0) | 6.2 | (3.0) |
| Week post-PF MDDD | 5.7 | (2.7) | 4.9 | (2.6) | 5.2 | (2.6) |
| Pre-screen MDDDi | 11.1 | (6.2) | 6.9 | (2.1) | 8.3 | (4.5) |
| End of treatment MDDDj | 5.6 | (2.8) | 4.2 | (1.4) | 4.6 | (2.1) |
a
t(31) = −3.17, p < .01.
b
t(88) = −4.98, p < .001.
c
t(36.3) = −3.68, p < .001.
d
χ2 (3) = 16.45, p = .001.
e
χ2 (1) = 10.93, p < .001.
f
Rated from 1 (Not at all) to 5 (Extremely).
g
Response was dichotomous yes/no.
h
χ2 (1) = 4.35, p < .05.
i
t(31) = −3.54, p < .01.
j
t(32.9) = −2.47, p < .05.