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Table 3 Heavy episodic drinking and SNS site use among alcohol-using emerging adults at MSBP

From: Emerging adults’ use of alcohol and social networking sites during a large street festival: A real-time interview study

 

Heavy episodic drinker (n = 35)

Non-heavy episodic drinker (n = 157)

p-value*

Alcohol use at the block party

   
 

Mean hours drinking (SD)**

3.67 (2.1)

5.35 (2.32)

0.001

 

Mean number of drinks (SD)**

10.0 (6.0)

6.9 (4.0)

<0.001

Social networking site use at the block party

   
 

% used Facebook

40

19

0.008

 

% used Twitter***

9

20

0.145

 

% used either SNS

46

30

0.086

 

% planned to use SNS for transportation***

12

2

0.020

  1. SNS Social networking site, MSBP Mifflin Street Block Party
  2. Heavy episodic drinking defined according to NIAAA criteria (>5 drinks in 2 h for males; >4 drinks in 2 h for females)
  3. *p-values reported from chi-squared tests unless otherwise indicated
  4. **p-value from t-tests for difference in means
  5. ***p-value from Fisher’s exact test