Follow-up adjustment of outpatient dropouts.
This study assesses the post-therapy adjustment of outpatient dropouts by investigating the relationship between termination status, number of visits attended, and pretreatment and follow-up symptom levels. Dropouts who attended only one or two sessions had extremely poor adjustment at follow-up; later dropouts were improved at follow-up, though their absolute level of adjustment was inferior to that of the appropriate terminators.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology; D010352:Patient Dropouts / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012917:Social Adjustment