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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Subst Abuse Treat. 2020 Jul 21;117:108089. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108089

Table 3.

Relationship with days of abstinence and various measures of EMI use at 3 and 6 months.

Overall/EMI Topic/EMI type* Average across the 3- and 6-month observations N = 200 Univariate Results Multivariate Stepwise Results
Mean Std. Dev. Beta p-value Beta p-value

Days abstinent from alcohol or other drug use in the past 90 days 65.74 28.30

Proportion of weeks 1+ EMI accessed 0.94 0.14 0.22 0.002 0.19 0.007
Total EMI accessed 872.97 657.99 0.18 0.013

 Reach Out to Others 614.29 502.12 0.13 0.060
  Contact your sponsor 4.78 9.45 0.15 0.039
  Text your friends 1.76 2.38 0.05 0.481
  Discussion groups 169.59 201.75 0.10 0.165
  My messages 224.69 159.56 0.11 0.119
  Support team 61.00 58.22 0.04 0.603
  Facebook 138.51 297.16 0.08 0.239
  My Friends 4.26 5.59 0.01 0.925
  Find meetings 9.70 9.60 0.09 0.195

 Relaxation 206.50 277.65 0.16 0.026
  Listen to music 150.77 233.01 0.19 0.007 0.16 0.027
  Listen to guided relaxation 10.57 15.82 0.03 0.704
  Listen to recovery stories 9.08 11.16 0.01 0.874
  Play games 36.07 89.71 −0.01 0.851

 Learn 12.19 14.62 0.05 0.474
  Recovery Q and A 2.83 5.52 0.04 0.613
  Recovery articles 3.14 5.03 0.05 0.493
  Recovery website 1.41 2.19 0.04 0.605
  Read Big Book of AA 2.22 3.07 0.12 0.083
  Daily Recovery app 2.48 4.00 −0.05 0.509
  Recovery information 0.11 0.42 0.07 0.341

 Recovery Motivation 24.24 26.33 0.01 0.893
  Recovery motivation page 15.38 16.02 0.03 0.715
  Words 2.83 5.79 −0.04 0.565
  Pictures 1.49 2.41 −0.02 0.747
  Daily Prayer 2.96 5.53 0.04 0.578
  Sobriety Counter 1.57 3.16 −0.03 0.692

 Exercise 15.75 28.25 0.11 0.120
  Physical Exercise 7.05 12.44 0.13 0.067
  Daily Workout 1.04 1.14 0.03 0.644
  Google Fit 0.93 1.33 0.15 0.042
  S Health 5.81 14.80 0.08 0.240
  Stretching routines 0.91 1.02 0.038 0.600
R-sq. 0.072

Note: Bold p<.05

*

includes more than one app in a few cases