Delivery of screening and brief intervention for unhealthy alcohol use in an urban academic Federally Qualified Health Center

Table 3 Factors associated with screening positive for unhealthy drinking among adult medicine patients who were screened at an urban academic Federally Qualified Health Center (n = 4212 patients)

Characteristic	Screened positive, n (%)	Adjusted odds ratio, 95% CI	p	Adjusted difference in percent screened, % (95% CI)^a
All	225 (5.3)	–	–	–
Age^b		0.79 (0.71–0.87)	< 0.001	− 1.2 (− 1.7 to − 6.8)
18–29 years	78 (7.6)
30–49	93 (6.2)
50–64	46 (4.3)
≥ 65	8 (1.3)
Sex
Male	139 (9.4)	Ref.		Ref.
Female	86 (3.2)	0.32 (0.24–0.42)	< 0.001	− 5.9 (− 7.5 to − 4.4)
Language
English	195 (6.4)	Ref.		Ref.
Spanish or French	30 (2.6)	0.50 (0.33–0.75)	0.001	− 2.9 (− 4.2 to − 1.5)
Visit type
New patient	148 (7.7)	Ref.		Ref.
Established patient or urgent care/walk-in	77 (3.4)	0.53 (0.40–0.71)	< 0.001	− 3.0 (− 4.4 to − 1.6)
Chronic medical or mental health condition
No	154 (5.7)	Ref.		Ref.
Yes	71 (4.7)	1.24 (0.91–1.70)	0.18	1.1 (− 0.05 to 2.7)

Defined as an AUDIT-C score of ≥ 4
^aRefers to the absolute difference in the probability of screening positive, adjusting for all variables
^bAge categories used for descriptive statistics, age used as a continuous variable in regression models with a 1-unit change representing 10 years

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