Emerging adults in substance misuse intervention: preintervention characteristics and responses to a motivation-enhancing program

Table 5 Odds ratios for sex and age predicting the transitioning to each lower risk status

Preintervention drinking status (previous 90 days)	Intentions at postintervention status (for next 90 days)
	Low risk (LR)		High risk (HR)
	No use	Light use	Occasional heavy use	Frequent heavy use
Effect of being female, compared to male
LR/no use	–	–	–	–
LR/light use	2.65	Reference^a	–	–
HR/occasional heavy use	0.73	1.56	Reference^a	–
HR/frequent heavy use	3.02**	3.29**	2.78*	Reference^a
Effect of being legal drinking age, compared to <21 years
LR/no use	–	–	–	–
LR/light use	2.56	Reference^a	–	–
HR/occasional heavy use	0.54	1.79	Reference^a	–
HR/frequent heavy use	1.27	1.47	1.91	Reference^a

* p < .05; ** p < .01
^aRemaining in the same status group was the reference condition for each odds ratio. Said differently, each odds ratio represents the odds of switching to the lower-risk status group versus staying in the original status group

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