As shown in Fig. 2, 1,008 patients were diagnosed with an AUD (12 months). 80 % of those patients did not receive any professional treatment [28] and of those 251 reported a reason why they did not receive treatment. Of the 1,774 patients with a lifetime AUD diagnosis (12 months excluded), 77 % did not receive treatment and 664 reported a reason for not seeking treatment. For questions referring to the past 12 months AUDs, unemployed patients were more likely to report a reason for not seeking treatment (OR = 2.24, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.36-3.70) and patients with a severe AUD were less likely to report a reason for not seeking treatment (OR = 0.53, 95 % CI 0.31-0.92). For lifetime AUDs no patient characteristic was predictive of reporting a reason for not seeking treatment.
