29 March 2021>: Clinical Research
A Real-World Study on the Use of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in Men Admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital
Martin Anders 1ADE , Eva Kitzlerová 1BDE* , Sylva Racková 2B , Václav Čapek 1ACDDOI: 10.12659/MSM.929667
Med Sci Monit 2021; 27:e929667
Table 1 Overview of measured parameters.
Parameters | N | Mean/proportion (%) | SD | p-value of association with AUDIT score |
---|---|---|---|---|
Age (years) | 613 | 40.22 | 12.94 | * |
Number of comorbid diagnoses | 636 | 1.80 | 0.81 | *** |
Number of hospitalizations | 632 | 4.24 | 5.53 | 0.9989 |
Length of hospitalizations (days) | 632 | 19.30 | 14.63 | ** |
Suicidal thoughts | 222 | 35.13% | – | ** |
Suicidal attempts | 95 | 15.03% | – | 0.6369 |
Number of patients with diagnosis F10.1 | 24 | 3.77% | – | – |
Number of patients with diagnosis F10.2 | 94 | 14.78% | – | – |
Number of patients with diagnosis F19.x | 123 | 19.34% | – | – |
Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) | 291 | 0.78 | 2.42 | ** |
Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) | 290 | 0.63 | 0.96 | *** |
Gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT) | 286 | 0.99 | 1.85 | ** |
Mean corpuscular value of erythrocytes (MCV) | 314 | 93.56 | 4.97 | *** |
C-reactive protein (CRP) | 207 | 11.02 | 23.87 | 0.6241 |
Albumin | 39 | 43.68 | 6.81 | 0.1841 |
Total cholesterol | 226 | 4.58 | 1.10 | * |
HDL (high density lipoprotein) cholesterol | 23 | 1.36 | 0.61 | 0.3407 |
LDL (low density lipoprotein) cholesterol | 21 | 2.81 | 0.99 | 0.0772 |
TAG (triacylglycerols) | 215 | 1.37 | 0.95 | 0.9264 |
* Statistical significance ** statistical significance *** statistical significance “−” indicates “not relevant”. n – number of patients; SD – standard deviation; AUDIT – Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test. Key to ICD-10 diagnoses: F10.1 – alcohol abuse; F10.2 – alcohol dependency; 19x – other psychoactive substance related disorders. |