Patient expectations and participation in a polydrug treatment program: a replicated field process study.
Substance abusers enrolled in a polydrug treatment program were administered Q sorts using items eliciting patients' attitudes toward types of treatment services as well as their counselor preferences and expected duration of treatment enrollment. An attempt was made to relate the patients' treatment expectations to their participation in the program service areas. Two independent patient samples (N = 72, N = 96) were surveyed over a 2-year period. Scales developed through factor analysis of the items sorted by the first sample generally replicated on the second sample. Significant differences were found for expectations and program participation between the two samples, but within-group relationships found in the first sample generally did not replicate on the second sample.
D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010349:Patient Compliance; D011779:Q-Sort; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*