NCJ Number
174173
Journal
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research Volume: 22 Issue: 6 Dated: September 1998 Pages: 1300-1311
Date Published
1998
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This study attempts to identify client attributes that would make them more appropriate for referral to one or another type of alcoholism treatment.
Abstract
The study reports 3-year outcomes for clients who had been treated in the five outpatient sites of Project MATCH, a clinical trial designed to test a priori client treatment matching hypotheses. Client anger demonstrated the most consistent interaction in the trial. A significant matching effect for psychiatric severity that appeared in the first year posttreatment was not observed after 3 years. Of the 21 client attributes used in testing the matching hypotheses, 11 had prognostic value at 3 years. Among these, readiness-to-change and self-efficacy were the strongest predictors of long-term drinking outcome. The reductions in drinking that were observed in the first year after treatment were sustained over the 3-year follow-up period; almost 30 percent of the subjects were totally abstinent in months 37 to 39, and subjects who did report drinking nevertheless remained abstinent an average of two-thirds of the time. Notes, tables, figures, reference