Examination of referral source and discharge outcomes among women in residential substance use disorder treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Court-mandated substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, compared to nonmandated treatment, has been associated with increased retention and completion. However, due to limitations of previous studies, whether child protective services (CPS) and criminal justice (CJ) mandated treatment improve treatment completion and retention among women in residential treatment remains unclear.

Purpose

This study investigated differences in treatment completion and progress based on three clinical discharge outcomes (i.e., completer, noncompleter with significant progress, and noncompleter without significant progress). We hypothesized that women mandated by (1) CJ will have a better treatment discharge outcome (i.e., treatment completer and noncompleter with satisfactory progres

SUBMITTER: Rivera D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8020908 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature