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Correlates of substance abuse treatment completion among disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, South Africa

BACKGROUND: Completion of substance abuse treatment is a proximal indicator of positive treatment outcomes. To design interventions to improve outcomes, it is therefore important to unpack the factors contributing to treatment completion. To date, substance abuse research has not examined the factor...

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Autores principales: Myers, Bronwyn J, Pasche, Sonja, Adam, Mohamed
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20222958
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-5-3
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Pasche, Sonja
Adam, Mohamed
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description BACKGROUND: Completion of substance abuse treatment is a proximal indicator of positive treatment outcomes. To design interventions to improve outcomes, it is therefore important to unpack the factors contributing to treatment completion. To date, substance abuse research has not examined the factors associated with treatment completion among poor, disadvantaged communities in developing countries. This study aimed to address this gap by exploring client-level factors associated with treatment completion among poor communities in South Africa. METHODS: Secondary data analysis was conducted on cross-sectional survey data collected from 434 persons residing in poor communities in Cape Town, South Africa who had accessed substance abuse treatment in 2006. RESULTS: Multiple regression analyses revealed that therapeutic alliance, treatment perceptions, abstinence-specific social support, and depression were significant partial predictors of treatment completion. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that treatment completion rates of individuals from poor South African communities can be enhanced by i) improving perceptions of substance abuse treatment through introducing quality improvement initiatives into substance abuse services, ii) strengthening clients' abstinence-oriented social networks and, iii) strengthening the counselor-client therapeutic alliance.
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spelling pubmed-28422562010-03-20 Correlates of substance abuse treatment completion among disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, South Africa Myers, Bronwyn J Pasche, Sonja Adam, Mohamed Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy Research BACKGROUND: Completion of substance abuse treatment is a proximal indicator of positive treatment outcomes. To design interventions to improve outcomes, it is therefore important to unpack the factors contributing to treatment completion. To date, substance abuse research has not examined the factors associated with treatment completion among poor, disadvantaged communities in developing countries. This study aimed to address this gap by exploring client-level factors associated with treatment completion among poor communities in South Africa. METHODS: Secondary data analysis was conducted on cross-sectional survey data collected from 434 persons residing in poor communities in Cape Town, South Africa who had accessed substance abuse treatment in 2006. RESULTS: Multiple regression analyses revealed that therapeutic alliance, treatment perceptions, abstinence-specific social support, and depression were significant partial predictors of treatment completion. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that treatment completion rates of individuals from poor South African communities can be enhanced by i) improving perceptions of substance abuse treatment through introducing quality improvement initiatives into substance abuse services, ii) strengthening clients' abstinence-oriented social networks and, iii) strengthening the counselor-client therapeutic alliance. BioMed Central 2010-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2842256/ /pubmed/20222958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-5-3 Text en Copyright ©2010 Myers et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Correlates of substance abuse treatment completion among disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, South Africa
title_full_unstemmed Correlates of substance abuse treatment completion among disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, South Africa
title_short Correlates of substance abuse treatment completion among disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, South Africa
title_sort correlates of substance abuse treatment completion among disadvantaged communities in cape town, south africa
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20222958
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-5-3
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