Assessing Modifiable Risk Factors

Using data from the SBIR form, we calculated the proportion of patients who screened medium or high risk on modifiable risk factors; who screened medium or high risk on modifiable risk factors, the proportion of total patients at medium or high risk who received brief advice, and the proportion of patients found to be high risk at screening who then received referral support. The sociodemographic characteristics of study participants, such as age, gender, and education status, which were collected at follow-up, were analyzed using descriptive statistics as appropriate to the data type (mean and standard deviation for continuous data; frequency and proportion for categorical data).
The proportion (and 95% confidence intervals (CI)) of the study participants who either agreed or strongly agreed that they were “ok with being asked,” during their hospital visit, about their behavior with respect to the risk factors was estimated to assess the acceptability outcome. The data collected on the various effectiveness outcomes were analyzed: the proportion (95% CI) of study participants were calculated for each effectiveness outcome. A chi-squared test was used to assess whether the proportion of participants with medium or high risk on at least one risk factor was statistically different (α < 0.05) between the baseline and the follow-up. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 25.0.