Table 1:
Predisposing, Enabling, and Need Characteristics: Overall and Compared across Racial/Ethnic Groups among Black, Hispanic, and White VA patients with Alcohol Use Disorders in Fiscal Year 2012
| Black (n= 79585) |
Hispanic (n= 21476) |
White (n= 201345) |
Total (n= 302406) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | p-value | % | |
| Predisposing Characteristics | |||||
| Gender | <0.001 | ||||
| Female | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |
| Age | <0.001 | ||||
| 18–24 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |
| 25–34 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 10 | |
| 35–49 | 20 | 19 | 16 | 17 | |
| 50–64 | 63 | 47 | 51 | 54 | |
| ≥65 | 10 | 14 | 20 | 17 | |
| Enabling Characteristics | |||||
| Marital Status | |||||
| Married | 24 | 37 | 34 | <0.001 | 32 |
| Never Married | 37 | 28 | 23 | 27 | |
| Divorced/Separated | 35 | 33 | 39 | 38 | |
| Widowed | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |
| VA Eligibility Status | <0.001 | ||||
| Full VA Coverage | 26 | 33 | 26 | 26 | |
| Service-connected < 50% | 21 | 20 | 20 | 20 | |
| Non-service connected | 52 | 46 | 54 | 53 | |
| Non-Veteran or Employee/Volunteer | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Need Characteristics | |||||
| Drug Use Disorder | 43 | 24 | 20 | <0.001 | 26 |
| Tobacco Use Disorder | 39 | 38 | 27 | <0.001 | 38 |
| Alcohol-related medical conditions | |||||
| Outpatient Fractures | 2 | 3 | 3 | <0.001 | 3 |
| Inpatient Traumas | 9 | 10 | 9 | <0.001 | 9 |
| Liver Disease | 3 | 5 | 4 | <0.001 | 4 |
| Upper GI bleed | 2 | 3 | 2 | <0.001 | 2 |
| Pancreatitis | 2 | 1 | 1 | <0.001 | 2 |
| Mental Health Conditions | |||||
| Major depression | 13 | 15 | 13 | <0.001 | 13 |
| Other mood disorders | 36 | 36 | 34 | <0.001 | 34 |
| Serious mental illness | 33 | 39 | 31 | <0.001 | 32 |
| General Comorbidity (Charlson Score using Deyo Index) | |||||
| 0 | 63 | 67 | 64 | <0.001 | 64 |
| 1 | 27 | 25 | 28 | 28 | |
| 2+ | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | |
Alcohol related medical conditions were determined using the following ICD-9 codes:
Fractures (800–829, 733.8, 905.0–905.5)
Trauma (830–904, 910–959, 994.1, 994.7, 994.8)
Liver Disease (570, 571.0–571.5, 571.9)
Upper GI Bleed (456.0–456.2, 530.7, 530.82, 531.0, 531.2, 531.4, 531.6, 532.0, 532.2, 532.4, 532.6, 533.0, 533.2, 533.4, 533.6, 534.0, 534.2, 534.4, 534.6, 578.0, 578.1, 578.9)
Pancreatitis (577)
Mental Health Conditions were determined using the following ICD-9 codes:
Major depression (296.2–3)
Other mood disorders (311, 300.4, 309.0, 293.83, 296.9, 309.1, 301.12)
Serious mental illness (295.0–9, 296.0–1, 296.4–6, 296.7, 309.81)
General Comorbidity Deyo Index Conditions were calculated using the following ICD-9 codes:
MI (410–410.9; 412), Congestive Heart Failure (428–428.9), Peripheral vascular disease (443.9 441–441.9 785.4 V43.4 procedure 38.48), Cerebrovascular disease (430–438), Senile and presenile dementias* (290–290.9), Chronic pulmonary disease (490–496; 500–505; 506.4), Rheumatologic disease (710.0; 710.1; 710.4; 714.0–714.2; 714.81; 725), Peptic Ulcer Disease (531–534.9; 531.4–531.7; 532.4–532.7; 533.4–533.7; 534.4–534.7), Mild liver disease including (571.2; 571.5; 571.6; 571.4–571.49), Moderate or severe liver disease (572.2–572.8; 456.0–456.21), Diabetes (250–250.3; 250.7), Diabetes with chronic complicatoins (250.4–250.6), Hemiplegia or paraplegia (344.1; 342–342.9), Renal Disease (582–582.9; 583–583.7; 585; 586; 588–588.9), Malignancies (140–172.9;174–195.8; 200–208.9), Metastatic solid tumor (196–199.1), AIDS and HIV (042–044.9)