Brief screening for co-occurring disorders among women entering substance abuse treatment

Table 1 Demographic Characteristics of Screening and Validation Samples.

	Screening Sample (N = 286)	Validation Sample (N = 88)	P-value
Age (mean, sd)	36.3 (8.1)	34.8 (7.7)	0.114
Race (n, %)			<0.001
Hispanic	73 (26)	42(48)
White, non Hispanic	94 (33)	14 (16)
Black/African American, nonHispanic	99 (35)	29 (33)
Other/Multi Race, non Hispanic	20 (7)	3 (3)
Substance Abuse Treatment Modality			<0.001
Methadone	164 (57)	9 (11)
Residential	48 (17)	55 (65)
Outpatient drug-free	74 (26)	21 (25)
Couldn't afford rent in past 2 years	146 (53)	52(60)	0.243
Couldn't obtain food in last year	105 (38)	40 (45)	0.199
Have children	247 (88)	81 (95)	0.043

Note: Validation sample size for Treatment modality was n = 85, for rent, n = 86, for children, n = 85. P-values for age, 2-sided Student's t-test and for remaining characteristics, Pearson Chi Square test. Statistical tests and degrees of freedom (df) are: Age, t-test = 1.58, df = 372; Race/ethnicity, Chi Square = 18.95 df = 3; Substance abuse modality, Chi Square 84.96, 2 df; Rent; Food; Children, Chi Square respectively = 1.36; 1.65; 4.08; df = 1.

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