Background
Methods
Subjects and setting
Sample size calculations
Recruitment
Screening procedure
Alcohol consumption screen
Clinical and liver screen
Alcohol behaviours and social impact survey
Ethics
Statistical analysis
Results
Recruitment
Number | Percentage | |
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Gender | ||
Male | 173 | 47.7 |
Female | 189 | 52.1 |
Missing | 1 | 0.3 |
Age (years) | ||
36-45 | 182 | 50.1 |
46–55 | 181 | 49.9 |
Ethnicity | ||
White British | 352 | 97.0 |
Other | 9 | 2.5 |
Missing | 2 | 0.6 |
Deprivation quintile | ||
1 (most affluent) | 54 | 14.9 |
2 | 59 | 16.3 |
3 | 72 | 19.8 |
4 | 49 | 13.5 |
5 (most deprived) | 99 | 27.3 |
Missing | 30 | 8.3 |
Drinking classificationa | ||
Non drinker | 13 | 3.6 |
Lower risk or none in last week | 209 | 57.6 |
Increasing risk | 114 | 31.4 |
Higher risk | 27 | 7.4 |
Findings from the liver screen
Characteristic | Univariate analysisa | Logistic regression | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | P | AOR | 95 % CI | P | |
Gender | 0.181 | 0.276 | ||||
Male | 76 | 34.2 | 1.71 | 0.65–4.47 | ||
Female | 48 | 22.9 |
Reference category
| |||
Age | 0.637 | 0.857 | ||||
36–45 | 61 | 27.9 |
Reference category
| |||
46–55 | 63 | 31.7 | 1.08 | 0.46–2.56 | ||
Deprivation quintile | 0.077 | 0.141 | ||||
Quintiles 1 & 2 (most affluent) | 47 | 27.7 |
Reference category
| |||
Quintile 3 | 31 | 41.9 | 1.75 | 0.62–4.94 | ||
Quintile 4 | 19 | 5.3 | 0.83 | 0.01–0.83 | ||
Quintile 5 (most deprived) | 24 | 37.5 | 1.09 | 0.32–3.67 | ||
Missing | 3 | 33.3 | 1.61 | 0.12–22.33 | ||
Frequency of family physician/ nurse visits in last year | 0.036 | Not included in model. | ||||
Never | 22 | 18.2 | ||||
Less than monthly | 89 | 28.1 | ||||
At least monthly | 12 | 58.3 | ||||
Missing | 1 | 100.0 | ||||
Dependence on Alcoholb | 0.280 | 0.069 | ||||
No dependence | 98 | 27.6 |
Reference category
| |||
Mild or moderate dependence | 26 | 38.5 | 2.85 | 0.92–8.84 | ||
Drinking classificationc | 0.475 | Not included in model. | ||||
Increasing risk | 99 | 31.3 | ||||
Higher risk | 25 | 24.0 | ||||
Obesity risk classification | 0.052 | 0.094 | ||||
No increased risk | 61 | 19.7 |
Reference category
| |||
Increased risk | 28 | 39.3 | 2.54 | 0.86–7.46 | ||
High risk or very high risk | 35 | 40.0 | 2.84 | 0.99–8.17 | ||
Blood pressure | 0.385 | 0.939 | ||||
Low or normal blood pressure | 84 | 29.8 |
Reference category
| |||
High blood pressure | 36 | 33.3 | 0.83 | 0.30–2.29 | ||
Missing | 4 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.00–0.00 | ||
Total | 124 | 29.6 |