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Table 1 Occurrence of each behavioral health risk factor in the total sample and stratified by medical department, gender, age and socio-economics

From: Behavioral health risk factor profiles in general hospital patients: identifying the need for screening and brief intervention

Subgroups

Number

Smoking

Alcohol

Inactivity

Overweight

%

(95% CI)

%

(95% CI)

%

(95% CI)

%

(95% CI)

Total

6251

39.0

(37.7–40.2)

21.2

(20.2–22.2)

65.6

(64.4–66.8)

61.0

(59.7–62.2)

Medical department

 Internal medicine

2284

33.8

(31.9–35.8)

21.2

(20.2–22.2)

71.7

(69.8–73.6)

64.6

(62.6–66.6)

 General surgery

957

34.2

(31.1–37.3)

18.8

(17.2–20.5)

67.4

(64.3–70.4)

61.7

(58.5–64.7)

 Ear-nose-throat

1282

44.1

(41.4–46.9)

23.2

(21.0–25.7)

64.4

(61.7–67.0)

56.7

(53.9–59.4)

 Trauma surgery

1728

44.5

(42.1–46.9)

25.6

(23.5–27.7)

57.3

(55.0–59.7)

58.9

(56.5–61.2)

Gender

 Men

3665

42.6

(41.0–44.2)

27.9

(26.5–29.4)

65.3

(63.7–66.8)

66.0

(64.5–67.6)

 Women

2586

33.8

(32.0–35.7)

11.7

(10.5–13.0)

66.0

(64.1–67.8)

53.8

(51.8–55.7)

Age in years

 18–34

1546

50.4

(47.9–52.9)

28.1

(25.9–30.5)

50.3

(47.7–52.8)

41.7

(39.2–44.2)

 35–49

1615

43.9

(41.5–46.4)

22.2

(20.2–24.3)

68.5

(66.2–70.7)

63.3

(60.9–65.7)

 50–64

3090

30.7

(29.0–32.2)

17.3

(16.0–18.7)

71.7

(70.1–73.3)

69.4

(67.7–71.0)

School education achieved

 Lowest level

1354

51.0

(48.3–53.7)

22.3

(20.1–24.6)

78.1

(75.8–80.3)

65.7

(63.1–68.2)

 Medium level

3715

38.4

(36.8–39.9)

19.7

(18.5–21.1)

66.6

(65.1–68.1)

63.2

(61.6–64.8)

 Highest level

1137

26.6

(24.0–29.2)

24.7

(22.2–27.3)

47.4

(44.5–50.4)

48.5

(45.5–51.4)

Employment

 Unemployed

749

52.2

(48.6–55.8)

28.8

(25.6–32.2)

75.7

(72.5–78.7)

62.8

(59.2–66.2)

 Employed

3680

37.5

(35.9–39.0)

22.2

(20.8–23.5)

61.5

(59.9–63.0)

61.1

(59.5–62.6)

 Other

1791

36.6

(34.4–38.9)

16.0

(14.3–17.7)

70.0

(67.8–72.1)

60.0

(57.7–62.3)

  1. Notes: CI = confidence interval, non-overlapping 95% CIs indicate significant differences at p ≤ 0.01