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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2020 Dec 18;116(5):1262–1269. doi: 10.1111/add.15280

Table 3.

Mean comparisons between classes identified up to 12-months following treatment on outcomes at 3 years post-treatment in Project MATCH based on most-likely class membership

Non-responder Class 1: Low Functioning (≈6%) Non-responder Class 2: Average Functioning (≈18%) Non-responder Class 3: High Functioning (≈28%) Responders: Abstainers/ Low-risk Drinkers (48%)
Sample size range by group* 23 – 35 92 – 123 246 – 280 185 – 352
DrInC: Total Consequences (n = 546, abstainers omitted) M (95% Confidence Interval) 61.04a (48.58, 73.51) 47.58a (42.12, 53.04) 30.48b (27.89, 33.08) 25.54b (22.12, 28.94)
Percent Drinking Days (n = 790) M (95% Confidence Interval) 29.33ab (17.03, 41.64) 38.98b (32.37, 45.59) 43.56b (39.24, 47.87) 17.95a (14.87, 21.02)
Drinks per Drinking Day (n = 790) M (95% Confidence Interval) 7.04a (4.17, 9.91) 6.12a (5.09, 7.16) 6.17a (5.56, 6.78) 2.43b (2.07, 2.79)
Percent Heavy Drinking Days (n = 790) M (95% Confidence Interval) 24.10a (12.92, 35.27) 30.25a (24.23, 36.28) 28.66a (24.88, 32.44) 8.41b (6.24, 10.58)
Social Behavior Score (n = 766) M (95% Confidence Interval) 3.06a (2.87, 3.26) 3.19a (3.10, 3.27) 3.50b (3.45, 3.56) 3.49b (3.45, 3.54)
Troubled by Psych Problems (n = 787) M (95% Confidence Interval) 1.57a (1.02, 2.12) 1.33a (1.07, 1.59) 0.70b (0.56, 0.84) 0.75b (0.62, 0.88)
Unhappy – Life (n = 748) Proportion .50a .40a .18b .16b
Unhappy – Living Situation (n = 752) Proportion .40a .29a .20ab .17b
Unhappy – Personal Relationship (n = 750) Proportion .54a .34ab .22bc .15c
Dissatisfied – Leisure (n = 759) Proportion .49a .46a .19b .18b
Unemployed (n = 789) Proportion .31a .24a .11b .12b
Experienced serious depression (n = 789) Proportion .34a .26ab .12c .16bc
Experienced anxiety/tension (n = 789) Proportion .43ab .38b .22c .23ac

Note. DrInC=Drinker Inventory of Consequences, ASI=Addiction Severity Index, BDI=Beck Depression Inventory, PFI=Psychosocial Functioning Inventory. Means/proportions sharing a subscript in a row indicate means that are not significantly different from each other based on Tukey post-hoc comparisons/cross-tabulation tests of significance.

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Sample sizes ranged based on missingness on the various outcome variables.