Can We Predict Which Adolescents Will Engage in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment?

Can We Predict Which Adolescents Will Engage in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment?

Understanding which adolescents remain in substance abuse treatment may facilitate the development of effective strategies for enhancing engagement and retention. Using clinical service data from a large naturalistic sample of adolescents, we examined whether client characteristics predict retention in outpatient alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment. χ2 tests and multinomial logistic regressi...

Can we predict who will complete outpatient therapy for anorexia nervosa?

Methods Participants were 56 women aged 17-40 years with strict or lenient AN. Treatment completion was defined as completing 15/20 planned sessions. Measures were demographic and clinical variables (eating disorder history, comorbidity and personality measures), patient-rating on the Treatment Credibility scale and early therapy alliance audiotaped sessions were rated by independent raters usi...

Can we predict which groups of questions students will learn from?

In a previous study ([4]), we used the ASSISTment system to track student knowledge longitudinally over the course of a schools year, based upon each student using our system about a dozen times during the course of the year. This result confounded learning from the computer system with students learning from their sitting their normal class. In this work, we look to see if students were reliab...

Substance abuse among adolescents.

Substance abuse intensive outpatient treatment: does program graduation matter?

Program graduation, even after controlling for length of stay, may predict for improved outcomes in some substance abuse treatment settings. We investigated the role of program graduation by comparing social outcomes and inpatient utilization the years before and after treatment among graduates and dropouts of a Veterans Administration substance abuse intensive outpatient program. At enrollment...