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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Jun 25;226:108879. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108879

Table 1.

All codes applied to the sample kratom subreddit posts (N=280) made between June 2019 to July 2020, interrater agreements (versus disagreements), agreement percent, and the total number of codes applied.

Code Concordant Discordant Total Codes Applied % Agreement
Desirable kratom effects 137 32 169 81.07
Kratom dosing 120 17 137 87.59
 Escalating dose over time 40 2 42 95.24
 Titrating dose over time 14 8 22 63.64
SUD or dependence on non-kratom substance 104 29 133 78.20
 Self-treatment for opioid drug withdrawal 85 18 103 82.52
 Self-treatment for other drug withdrawal 11 6 17 64.71
Kratom as long-term opioid substitute 34 4 38 89.47
Self-treatment for chronic pain symptoms 53 5 58 91.38
Reports psychiatric symptoms or history 40 18 58 68.97
 Self-treatment for depression 24 8 32 75.00
 Self-treatment for anxiety 29 6 35 82.86
 Self-treatment for other psychiatric symptoms 4 3 7 57.14
Polydrug use with kratom 130 25 155 83.87
Professed kratom addiction 160 23 183 87.43
 Kratom Withdrawal 69 17 86 80.23
 Kratom Tolerance 39 2 41 95.12
Adverse kratom effects 75 4 79 94.94
Desire to quit kratom 36 7 43 83.72
Quitting kratom 41 12 53 77.36
Kratom regulation discussion 28 2 30 93.33
Total 1,273 248 1,521 83.69