title: Differences in the Symptom Check List-90 profiles of black and white methadone patients.
abstract: The Sympton Check List-90 (SCL-90) scores of 900 methadone patients were compared by sex and race using a two-way multivariate analysis of variance. The mean profiles did not differ with respect to sex, but did for race. White methadone patients were more obsessive-compulsive and depressed than the Black patients. However, the magnitudes of the mean differences were less than 2.5, and such small mean differences indicate that the employment of separate sex- or race-based normative values for the interpretation of the SCL-90 is unnecessary with methadone patients.
authors.affiliation: UMDNJ-SOM, Department of Psychiatry, Camden 08103.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Platt
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Steer
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Ranieri
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Metzger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D005260:Female; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008691:Methadone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics
chemical_list: D008691:Methadone