title: Second-year alcoholism treatment outcome evaluation with a focus on Mexican-American patients.
abstract: This is an evaluation of an Alcohol Treatment Unit with a focus on a comparison of Mexican-American and Anglo-American outcomes. Social adjustment on a target cohort of 75 was measured on a standard rating instrument (SAI) 2 years after discharge from the hospital. The overall successfulness of the program was 39%; the validity of the Treatment Difficulty Scale (a composite index of anticipated treatment difficulty) was demonstrated for both ethnic groups and both first and second year outcome results; and the average stability of first year findings of SAI components as compared to second year results was shown to be 79%. Use of a standardized index of pretreatment patient characteristics was recommended to facilitate comparative program evaluation research.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008800:Mexico; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D012917:Social Adjustment; D044465:White People