Differences in the Symptom Check List-90 profiles of black and white methadone patients.
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.
Platt
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UMDNJ-SOM, Department of Psychiatry, Camden 08103.
Steer
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Ranieri
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Metzger
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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
D008691:Methadone