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Table 2 Demographics and observed scorings on the full Short Understanding of Substance Abuse Scale (SUSS) for N = 640 participantsa

From: Assessing understandings of substance use disorders among Norwegian treatment professionals, patients and the general public

 

Professionals N = 291

Patients N = 133

General public N = 216

Age (years)

45 (10)

41 (14)

43 (15)

Gender (female %)

72

34

62

Educational length (years)

15.6 (2.5)

11.2 (2.3)

14.2 (2.7)

Disease model belief; sum scoreb

15.8 (5.9)

21.4 (5.7)

16.9 (5.9)

Psychosocial model belief; sum scorec

13.0 (2.5)

13.2 (3.5)

12.0 (3.1)

Disease model belief; mean scored

2.2 (0.9)

3.0 (0.9)

2.3 (0.9)

Psychosocial model belief; mean scoree

2.6 (0.6)

2.6 (0.8)

2.4 (0.8)

  1. Notes:
  2. aVariables are shown as mean (SD)
  3. bSum score of seven questions; 0–28 scale
  4. cSum score of five questions; 0–20 scale
  5. dMean of seven questions, score 0–4
  6. eMean of five questions, score 0–4