Attitudinal Predictors of No-Show to Substance Use Disorder Treatment Intake in Veterans.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Substance use disorder (SUD) exacts a devastating psychosocial and medicolegal toll in Veterans. Despite the availability of quality SUD care provided by the Veterans Health Administration, many Veterans with SUD who initially seek treatment do not attend their intake appointment that helps determine their assigned level of care. Demographic and administrative factors have been used to predict outpatient no-shows, but whether patient-reported attitudes can be feasibly probed prior to the intake appointment to potentially predict intake no-show is largely unexplored.

Objectives

We wished to determine whether patient attitudes about SUD and SUD treatment can be feasibly probed in veterans and whether such attitudes could potentially predict intake no-show.

Method

SUBMITTER: Bjork JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12665007 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature