Treatment outcome and readmission risk among women in women-only versus mixed-gender drug treatment programs in Chile.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Traditional treatment programs for substance use disorder (SUD) tend to be male-dominated environments, which can negatively affect women's access to treatment and related outcomes. Women's specific treatment needs have led some providers to develop women-only SUD treatment programs in several countries. In Chile, women-only programs were only fully implemented in 2010. We compared treatment outcomes and readmission risk for adult women admitted to state-funded women-only versus mixed-gender SUD treatment programs in Chile.

Methods

We used a registry-based retrospective cohort design of adult women in women-only (N = 8200) and mixed-gender (N = 13,178) SUD treatment programs from 2010 to 2019. The study obtained data from the National Drug and Alcohol Service fr

SUBMITTER: Olivari CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9052114 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature