Pathways to care: narratives of American Indian adolescents entering substance abuse treatment.

ABSTRACT: Using data from 89 American Indian adolescents and guided by the Network Episode Model, this paper analyses pathways to residential substance abuse treatment and their correlates. These adolescents were recruited at admission to a tribally-operated substance abuse treatment program in the southern United States from October 1998 to May 2001. Results from the qualitative analyses of these adolescent's pathways to care narratives indicated that 35% ultimately agreed with the decision for their entry into treatment; 41% were Compelled to enter treatment by others, usually by their parents, parole officers, and judges; and 24% did not describe a clear pathway to care. In the multinomial logistic regression model examining correlates of these pathways to care classifications, adolescents who de

SUBMITTER: Novins DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3348264 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature