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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addict Behav. 2021 Aug 8;123:107079. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107079

Table 4.

Multilevel linear predicting poor general health.

Fixed effects All months (n = 14,528 person months among 767 individuals) Alcohol-use months (n = 11,229 person months among 748 individuals) Months in which both alcohol and marijuana used (n = 4,268 person months among 534 individuals)

B 95% CI B 95% CI B 95% CI
Between person
Intercept 1.22 (1.02,1.42) 1.41 (1.18,1.64) 1.06 (0.87,1.25)
Female 0.32 (0.22,0.42) 0.28 (0.17,0.39) 0.29 (0.15,0.43)
Race/ethnicity
 Non-Hispanic White (reference)
Non-Hispanic Asian 0.03 (−0.11,0.17) 0.02 (−0.13,0.16) 0.02 (−0.20,0.24)
 Non-Hispanic Other 0.06 (−0.08,0.20) 0.05 (−0.09,0.20) 0.19 (0.01,0.38)
 Hispanic 0.08 (−0.10,0.25) 0.07 (−0.10,0.24) 0.17 (−0.04,0.37)
Age in years 0.01 (−0.02,0.04) 0.01 (−0.03,0.04) −0.01 (−0.05,0.03)
Proportion of all months
 Alcohol use −0.28 (−0.53,−0.02)
 Both alcohol and marijuana use 0.01 (−0.28,0.29)
Person average substance use
 Alcohol use quantity/frequency 0.00 (−0.09,0.10) 0.00 (−0.11,0.10)
 Marijuana use occasions 0.08 (0.01,0.14)
Proportion of all months
 Neither alcohol nor marijuana ref. ref.
 Alcohol-only −0.09 (−0.32,0.15)
 Marijuana-only 0.42 (−0.18,1.02)
 CAM 0.08 (−0.26,0.42)
 SAM 0.31 (0.06,0.56)
Proportion of alcohol-use months
 Alcohol-only ref. ref.
 CAM 0.30 (0.04,0.56)
 SAM 0.37 (0.18,0.55)
Proportion of alcohol and marijuana months
 CAM ref. ref.
 SAM 0.02 (−0.22,0.26)
Within-person (time-varying)
Month of study (in years) 0.08 (0.04,0.11) 0.09 (0.05,0.13) 0.11 (0.05,0.17)
Quantity/frequency of alcohol use 0.03 (0.00,0.06) 0.03 (−0.02,0.08)
Marijuana use occasions 0.00 (−0.03,0.03)
Pattern of substance use
 Neither alcohol nor marijuana ref. ref.
 Alcohol-only 0.03 (−0.03,0.08) ref. ref.
 Marijuana-only 0.08 (−0.02,0.17)
 CAM 0.00 (−0.07,0.08) −0.04 (−0.10,0.02) ref. ref.
 SAM 0.01 (−0.06,0.09) −0.03 (−0.09,0.03) 0.02 (−0.04,0.09)
Random effects

Intercept variance 0.44 0.43 0.43
Within-person variance 0.56 0.56 0.54

Note. SAM=simultaneous alcohol and marijuana; CAM=concurrent alcohol and marijuana but not simultaneous use. Bold typeface indicates p<.05