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Table 1 Employee Demographics and Occupational Health Care Personnel’s Activity in Tackling Alcohol Use

From: Occupational health care personnel tackling alcohol overuse – an observational study of work processes and patient characteristics

Age and gender

Percentage of total and number

Discussed thoroughly

p-value

Started discussion, but alcohol use none or minimal

p-value

Did not discuss

p-value

Age ≤ 35 men

9.8%

54.0%

Reference

22.2%

Reference

23.8%

Reference

 

45.3–62.7%a

 

15.0–29.5%a

 

16.4–31.2%a

 

N = 126

N = 68

 

N = 28

 

N = 30

 

Age ≤ 35 women

15.2%

26.0%

0.004

35.7%

0.200

38.3%

0.162

 

19.9–32.2%a

 

29.0–42.4%a

 

31.5–45.3%1a

 

N = 196

N = 51

 

N = 70

 

N = 75

 

Age 36–45 men

5.4%

46.4%

0.484

23.2%

0.942

30.4%

0.604

 

34.6–58.1%a

 

13.2–33.1%a

 

19.6–41.3%a

 

N = 69

N = 32

 

N = 16

 

N = 21

 

Age 36–45 women

16.5%

18.9%

< 0.001

34.9%

0.222

46.2%

0.031

 

13.6–24.1%a

 

28.5–41.3%a

 

39.5–52.9%a

 

N = 212

N = 40

 

N = 74

 

N = 98

 

Age 46–55 men

8.5%

44.5%

0.320

27.3%

0.660

28.2%

0.700

 

35.3–53.8%a

 

19.0–35.6%a

 

19.8–36.6%a

 

N = 110

N = 49

 

N = 30

 

N = 31

 

Age 46–55 women

20.3%

19.1%

< 0.001

33.2%

0.275

47.7%

0.019

 

14.3–23.8%a

 

27.5–38.9%a

 

41.7–53.8%a

 

N = 262

N = 50

 

N = 87

 

N = 125

 

Age ≥ 56 men

7.8%

44.0%

0.309

26.0%

0.748

30.0%

0.593

 

34.3–53.7%a

 

17.4–34.6%a

 

21.0–39.0%a

 

N = 100

N = 44

 

N = 26

 

N = 30

 

Age ≥ 56 women

16.5%

16.0%

< 0.001

43.7%

0.044

40.4%

0.107

 

11.0–20.9%a

 

37.0–50.3%a

 

33.8–47.0%a

 

N = 213

N = 34

 

N = 93

 

N = 86

 
  1. Data taken from the Tackling Alcohol Overuse – Quality Measurement in Finland 2013–2019 (N = 1288). The data collection has taken place yearly in all services of occupational health care during a two-week period. The impact of age and gender are analysed having the youngest age group of men as reference
  2. Boldface indicates statistical significance (p < 0.05)
  3. aConfidence interval = 95%