Table 1.
Demographic, COVID-19-related, and psychosocial characteristics according to groups defined by reports of binge drinking
| Groups According to Self-Reported Binge Drinking (BD) Level Before and After Campus Closure |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Post-Closure Level Differs from Pre- |
Post-Closure Level Same as Pre- |
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| Lower BD %(N)/Mean (SD) | Higher BD %(N)/Mean (SD) | Consistent No BD %(N)/Mean (SD) | Consistent BD %(N)/Mean (SD) | P-value | Total Sample %(N)/Mean (SD) | |
| Demographic Variables | ||||||
| Sex | ||||||
| Female | 64.38% (188) | 54.84% (17) | 63.59% (234) | 66.00% (33) | 0.746 | 63.70% (472) |
| Male | 35.62% (104) | 45.16% (14) | 36.41% (134) | 34.00% (17) | 36.30% (269) | |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 89.04% (269) | 80.65% (25) | 74.18% (269) | 96.00% (48) | <0.001 | 81.78% (607) |
| Other | 10.96% (32) | 19.35% (6) | 25.82% (95) | 4.00% (2) | 18.22% (136) | |
| Living with parents post-closure | ||||||
| Yes | 96.23% (281) | 90.32% (28) | 92.93% (342) | 94.00% (47) | 0.247 | 94.20% (698) |
| No | 3.77% (11) | 9.68% (3) | 7.07% (26) | 6.00% (3) | 5.80% (43) | |
| COVID-19 Variables | ||||||
| Had COVID-19 symptoms | 8.45% (25) | 16.13% (5) | 7.67% (29) | 14.81% (8) | 0.162 | 8.83% (67) |
| Concerned about getting COVID-19 (0 to 3) | 0.70 (0.61) | 0.74 (0.68) | 0.71 (0.62) | 0.64 (0.60) | 0.863 | 0.70 (0.61) |
| Worried about COVID-19 situation (0 to 4) | 2.02 (1.00) | 1.81 (1.08) | 1.96 (1.04) | 1.96 (1.14) | 0.706 | 1.98 (1.03) |
| Feel alone because of COVID-19 (0 to 5) | 2.37 (1.17) | 2.23 (1.28) | 2.10 (1.21) | 2.40 (1.05) | 0.022a | 2.23 (1.19) |
| Psychosocial Variables | ||||||
| Pledged Greek life | 20.20% (60) | 25.81% (8) | 7.16% (27) | 20.37% (11) | <0.001 | 13.77% (102) |
| Drinking motives (1 to 5) | ||||||
| Coping | 1.83 (0.70) | 1.73 (0.71) | 1.47 (0.62) | 1.83 (0.93) | <0.001b | 1.71 (0.72) |
| Social | 3.29 (0.95) | 3.43 (0.94) | 2.53 (1.06) | 3.05 (1.12) | <0.001c | 3.05 (1.06) |
| Conformity | 1.40 (0.59) | 1.45 (0.58) | 1.38 (0.65) | 1.41 (0.64) | 0.938 | 1.39 (0.61) |
| Enhancement | 2.99 (0.98) | 2.24 (3.75) | 2.14 (0.95) | 2.83 (0.95) | <0.001d | 2.68 (1.34) |
| Perception of % of other first-year students that currently drink (0 to 100) | 38.89 (22.27) | 51.03 (22.61) | 39.48 (21.57) | 43.56 (22.62) | 0.018e | 40.01 (22.07) |
| Intervention Groups | ||||||
| Control | 34.93% (102) | 25.81% (8) | 35.05% (129) | 34.00% (17) | 0.773 | 34.55% (256) |
| Treatment | 65.07% (190) | 64.95% (239) | 66.00% (33) | 74.19% (23) | 65.45% (485) | |
P-values are from chi-square tests for categorical measures and F-tests for continuous measures.
COVID-19 refers to the novel coronavirus.
The difference between the consistent no binge drinking group and the group that decreased binge drinking was the only statistically significant pairwise comparison.
For coping drinking motive, the consistent no binge drinking group had a statistically significant difference from the consistent binge group and the decrease group; no other pairwise comparisons were statistically significant.
For social drinking motive, the consistent no binge drinking group has a statistically significant difference from all other groups; no other pairwise comparison was statistically significant.
For enhancement, the consistent no binge drinking group differed significantly from the decrease and consistent binge group, and the difference between the decrease and increase group was statistically significant.
The differences for the group that increased binge drinking compared to the groups that decreased and did not binge drink were statistically significant.
N=741; samples for motive drinking variables only included students who did not respond to the option of “I do not drink” in the motive scale.