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Table 3 Characteristics of rural community respondents that predict their alcohol-intervention preferences

From: An empirical approach to selecting community-based alcohol interventions: combining research evidence, rural community views and professional opinion

Characteristicsa

Intervention type

Coefficient (robust standard error)

 

School

Promote safer drinking

Community

Police

GP

Hospital/ED

Pharmacists

Workplace

Constant

25.5* (5.21)

1.45 (4.65)

7.98 (5.20)

18.7* (5.83)

7.58 (3.61)

12.7* (3.75)

6.80 (3.35)

2.39 (3.86)

High frequency drinking

0.02 (0.07)

0.12 (0.06)

-0.12 (0.07)

-0.25* (0.07)

-0.01 (0.05)

0.16* (0.05)

-0.03 (0.04)

0.03 (0.05)

Family/friend drinks too much

-0.34 (0.76)

-0.16 (0.68)

2.28* (0.76)

-1.02 (0.86)

-0.13 (0.53)

-0.48 (0.56)

0.26 (0.56)

0.55 (0.57)

Female

2.43 (1.22)

-2.27 (1.08)

2.17 (1.22)

1.15 (0.86)

-0.17 (0.85)

2.32* (0.89)

0.12 (0.80)

-1.31 (0.91)

Age

0.14* (0.05)

-0.01 (0.05)

-0.10 (0.05)

-0.07 (0.06)

-0.09 (0.04)

-0.21* (0.04)

-0.19* (0.03)

-0.07 (0.04)

Education level

-0.52 (0.24)

0.86* (0.21)

0.14 (0.24)

-0.15 (0.27)

-0.29 (0.17)

-0.28 (0.17)

-0.30 (0.16)

-0.24 (0.18)

Gross annual household income > $78,000 pa

6.90* (2.28)

1.02 (2.03)

-2.08 (2.29)

-2.74 (2.56)

-3.48 (1.58)

-3.12(1.67)

-4.03* (1.50)

-4.12(1.71)

Prefer not to say income

3.45 (2.47)

0.30 (2.20)

-1.09 (2.47)

-0.76 (2.76)

-5.11* (1.72)

-1.77 (1.79)

-(1.72) (1.60)

-1.20 (1.82)

Communityb

10.5

8.68

11.0

15.1*

6.33

11.2*

8.32

7.92

  1. *Statistically significant where p ≤ 0.01
  2. a Neither high quantity drinking nor number of persons in the household aged ≥ 14 years were statistically significant predictors of intervention preference
  3. b Community is the maximum difference in average allocation preference between all twenty communities - significance is based on a joint test for significance of all community dummy variables