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Table 3 Demographic characteristics of patients eligible for screening at each clinic

From: Implementation of substance use screening in rural federally-qualified health center clinics identified high rates of unhealthy alcohol and cannabis use among adult primary care patients

Characteristic

Clinic 1

Clinic 2

Clinic 3

Total number of eligible patients

1641^

1429

942

Age

 Mean

46.7

47.7

49.1

 SD

14.85

15.66

15.49

Sex

 Female

1071 (65.3%)

846 (59.2%)

561 (59.6%)

 Male

570 (34.7%)

583 (40.8%)

381 (40.4%)

Race*

 Black/African American

16 (1.0%)

7 (0.5%)

2 (0.2%)

 White

1507 (91.8%)

1316 (92.1%)

913 (96.9%)

 Asian

20 (1.2%)

14 (1.0%)

6 (0.6%)

 American Indian/Alaska Native

15 (0.9%)

5 (0.3%)

7 (0.7%)

 Other

10 (0.6%)

13 (0.9%)

2 (0.2%)

 Multiracial

16 (1.0%)

2 (0.1%)

1 (0.1%)

 Missing

57 (3.5%)

72 (5.0%)

11 (1.2%)

Health insurance

 Medicaid

268 (16.3%)

159 (11.1%)

113 (12.0%)

 Medicare

178 (10.8%)

231 (16.2%)

152 (16.1%)

 Private insurance

1073 (65.4%)

901 (63.1%)

622 (66.0%)

 No insurance

67 (4.1%)

78 (5.5%)

29 (3.1%)

 Other

55 (3.4%)

60 (4.2%)

26 (2.8%)

  1. ^3 patients under 18 years of age were removed
  2. *No ethnicity data was collected within the health system