Electronic self-administered screening for substance use in adult primary care patients: feasibility and acceptability of the tobacco, alcohol, prescription medication, and other substance use (myTAPS) screening tool

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the 2000 participants

Characteristic	Participants N (%)
Gender
Women	1124 (56.2)
Men	874 (43.7)
Other^a/refused	2 (1.0)
Age
Mean (years), standard deviation	46.0, SD = 14.7
Younger participants: 18–25 years old	225 (11.3)
Older participants: > 65 years old	160 (8.0)
Race
White	667 (33.4)
Black/African American	1112 (55.6)
Multiracial	66 (3.3)
Other^b	148 (7.4)
Refused	7 (0.4)
Ethnicity
Hispanic	233 (11.7)
Non-Hispanic	1761 (88.1)
Other^c/refused	6 (0.3)
Education level
Less than high school degree (HS)	383 (19.2)
HS or GED	578 (28.9)
Higher than HS (some college, associate, bachelor or graduate degree)	1038 (51.9)
Other^a	1 (0.1)
Unhealthy substance use (reported on myTAPS 1^d)^e
Tobacco	906 (45.3)
Alcohol	858 (42.9)
Illicit drug	492 (24.6)
Prescription drug	245 (12.3)

^a‘Don’t know’ (n = 1)
^bAsian (n = 35), American-Indian or Alaska Native (n = 12), unknown (n = 32), other not specified (n = 69)
^c‘Don’t know’ (n = 5)
^dElectronic self-administered format of the Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription medication, and other Substance use, screening step
^eSubstance use categories are not mutually exclusive

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