Risk factors for alcohol and other drug use by healthcare professionals

Table 1 Predictors for Any Past Year (Model 1) and Significant Alcohol and Drug Use (Model 2)

Predictors (IVs)	Model 1 (N = 479)				Model 2 (N = 312)
	B (SE)	β	Odds Ratio (OR)	C.I.	B (SE)	β	Odds Ratio (OR)	C.I.
Background Variables
Year licensed	-	-	-		.58* (.33)	-.21	.47	.3 – .9
Past month cigarette use	-	-	-		1.11^(.59)	.16	3.04	1.0 – 9.6
Pattern of alcohol use	3.01*** (.74)	.64	20.27	4.8–86.4	3.37*** (.51)	.79	29.01	10.6–79.6
Psychological Variable
Professional invincibility	-1.43** (.52)	-.17	.24	.1 – .7	-	-	-
Social Variables
Professional/social and/or pharmaceutical offers for alcohol and or drug use	1.24*** (.26)	.28	3.45	1.1–2.8	-	-	-
Social circles with known alcohol and drug abusers	.57*** (.24)	.15	1.77	2.0 – 5.8	-.66* (.33)	-.17	.52	.3–1.0
Intercept	-.51 (.26)				-.51 (.38)

^p = .056, *p ≤ .05, **p ≤ .01, ***p ≤ .001.
Notes: Only significant predictors shown; - = not-significant; Gender, access to drugs in Model 1 and mean income, family history of substance use and religious affiliation in Model 2, were trending toward significance but removed from the models. C.I. = Confidence Interval. IVs = Independent Variables

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