Alcohol use disorder severity and reported reasons not to seek treatment: a cross-sectional study in European primary care practices

Table 4 Results from multinomial logistic regression. Reported reason not to seek treatment was predicted by alcohol use disorders (AUDs) severity (past 12 months), adjusting for age. Odds ratios (OR), respective 95 % confidence intervals (CI) and p-values are displayed

	Reason for not seeking treatment
	Minimization of problem severity vs. denial		Self-change vs. denial		Encounter barriers vs. denial
AUDs^a severity	OR (95 % CI)	p-value	OR (95 % CI)	p-value	OR (95 % CI)	p-value
Mild vs. sub threshold	1.35 (0.33 - 5.46)	0.674	1.26 (0.67 - 2.36)	0.471	1.67 (0.99 - 2.83)	0.097
Moderate vs. sub threshold	2.39 (0.25 - 23.00)	0.448	2.04 (0.57 - 7.31)	0.272	7.70 (3.17 - 18.71)	<0.001
Severe vs. sub threshold	n.a.^b	n.a.^b	0.78 (0.16 - 3.97)	0.773	4.58 (1.82 - 11.56)	0.001

^aAlcohol use disorder severity as defined by the fifth revision of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual
^bNot applicable (no observations for minimization of problem severity)

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