Using the day treatment appropriateness scale with rural, alcoholic clients.
Inadequate selection of patients is one factor in the underutilization of day-treatment programs. The Day Treatment Appropriateness Scale (DTAS; Lefkovitz, P. M., Int. J. Part. Hosp. 1:45-47, 1982) is one of only two reported instruments designed to assist in patient selection; it has been shown to predict validly successful completion of a day-treatment program for chronic, psychiatric patients. This report addresses the use of the DTAS in an alcohol day-treatment program located in a rural, midwestern, community mental-health center. The DTAS was not found to predict accurately successful program completion among alcoholic clients in day treatment. Possible explanations of the findings and additional predictive variables are reported.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000628:therapy*; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009329:Nebraska; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D012424:Rural Population; D012931:Social Environment; D013223:Statistics as Topic