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NUMBER AND TYPE OF SESSIONS RECEIVED BY PATIENTS

Table 5 shows the median and interquartile range of the number of follow up sessions per week, stratified by baseline risk group� The median total number of sessions per patient with either a social worker, psychiatrist, or counsellor-educator was 49�5 sessions (IQR: 26�5 - 64�8) which equates to 1�2 (IQR: 0�9 - 2�1) per week� The 3 patients with low risk had 1�2 (IQR: 0�9 - 1�4) per week whereas the 39 patients at moderate risk had 1�2 (IQR: 0�9 - 1�8) per week� The 17 patients at high risk had 1�3 (IQR: 0�7 - 2�4) per week�

The majority of sessions were with counsellor-educators� Patients had a median of 10 (IQR: 2�5 - 16�5) follow up counselling sessions and 22 (IQR: 12 - 29) short contact sessions which equates to 0�3 (IQR: 0�1 - 0�5) and 0�5 (IQR: 0�4 - 0�8) sessions with a counsellor-educator per week, respectively� See Annex 6 for full details on the number of patient sessions scheduled per week according to MSF protocols to be able to compare in full, but for high and moderate risk groups the realised sessions were considerably fewer than planned sessions�

Furthermore, 14 (23�7%) patients attended group counselling, 14 (23�7%) patients received home visits and 13 (22%) received at least one family intervention�

Fourteen (23�7%) were seen by the social worker, and the median number of sessions with the social worker, amongst those referred was 11 (IQR: 8�2- 13�8) which equates to a total of 0�3 (IQR: 0�2- 0�4) per week�

Twenty-four (40�7%) were referred to a psychiatrist, of which 15 (25�4%) were prescribed psychiatric drugs (for alcohol withdrawal, sleeping tablets, anti-convulsant, anti-craving medication or vitamins) and amongst these the median number of sessions with the psychiatrist was 4 (IQR: 1�8- 19�2) � The three patients in the low risk group had a median 10 (IQR: 5�0, 18�0) sessions with the psychiatrist, more than the high and moderate risk groups�

TABLE 5: NUMBER OF FOLLOW UP VISITS BY BASELINE RISK GROUP

Individual FU sessions per week Low risk (N=3) Moderate risk (N=39) High risk (N=17) Total (N=59) p value

0,663 (1)

- Median 0,3 0,3 0,2 0,3 - Q1, Q3 0,1 0,3 0,2, 0,4 0,1, 0,6 0,1, 0,5

Total individual FU sessions

- Median 14,0 11,0 6,0 10,0 - Q1, Q3 7,0, 15,0 3,0, 20,5 2,0, 13,0 2,5, 16,5 0,528 (1)