A low-cost evaluation of alcoholism treatment in a private psychiatric hospital program.
The authors designed a low-cost evaluation study to examine outcome on an alcoholism specialty unit of a private psychiatric hospital as well as to look at the effects of several post-treatment therapies. Using conservative criteria for good outcome, and accounting for the expected poorer outcome of non-respondents, they found that the program achieved a 58 percent success rate. Use of Alcoholics Anonymous and a covert sensitization exercise developed especially for the program were associated with better outcome in terms of drinking behavior post-hospitalization. It should not be difficult to conduct a similar study in other treatment settings with a low research budget.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000628:therapy*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors