adherence to naltrexone medication in a treatment

Variable model		OR	95% CI	P
Age	continuous	1.01	0.98-1.04	0.45
Gender (R=female)	Male	0.99	0.61-1.61	0.98
Marital status (R=living alone)	Cohabiting	1.13	0.66-1.94	0.67
Employment (R=employed)	Unemployed	0.43	0.22-0.86	0.02*
	Retired	1.28	0.59-2.76	0.53
Education (R=basic or none)	Lower intermediate	0.89	0.49-1.64	0.72
	High or higher intermediate	2.03	0.96-4.30	0.06
Primary drinking pattern (R=episodic drinker)	Regular drinker	0.68 (0.40^a)	0.34-1.34 (0.14-1.13 ^a)	0.26 (0.08^a)
Regular drinkers’ pretreatment alcohol consumption
level (R=low risk)	High risk	0.58(0.53^a)	0.26-1.30 (0.20-3.02^a)	0.19 (0.20^a)
Comorbid psychiatric and/or somatic disorders (R=no)	yes	0.80 (1.00^a)	0.48-1.34 (0.53-1.91^a)	0.39 (0.99^a)
	missing information	0.44 (0.56^a)	0.22-0.85 (0.25-1.24^a)	0.02* (0.15^a)

Dependent variable was categorized as 1=good adherence with naltrexone and 0=poor adherence)
R=Reference Category; A:Adjusted for Socio-demographic Variables

Table 2: Predictors of patients’ (n=299) adherence to naltrexone medication in a treatment for problem drinking: primary drinking pattern, pretreatment alcohol consumption level, comorbid disorders and socio-demographic variables

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