title: Depressive symptoms and mentally ill chemical abusers' perception of the treatment environment in residential settings.
abstract: In assessing the socioenvironmental characteristics of psychiatric treatment programs, researchers typically assume that their measurements are unaffected by client characteristics. However, our analysis among mentally ill chemical abusers in a therapeutic community and community residences found significant associations between subscales of the Community Oriented Program Evaluation Scale (COPES) and depressive symptoms, as measured by the CES-D, after 2, 6, and 12 months of treatment. Investigators of treatment environments should consider depressive symptoms as a possible threat to the validity of their findings.
authors: Argus Community, Inc.
authors: L A
authors: LA
authors: Nuttbrock
authors: M R
authors: MR
authors: Rahav
authors: J J
authors: JJ
authors: Rivera
authors: D S
authors: DS
authors: Ng-Mak
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000592:standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012114:Residential Treatment / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D012938:Social Perception; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D013808:Therapeutic Community; D013997:Time Factors