Weekly patterns of drug treatment attendance. Catalogue en ligne

Titre :	Weekly patterns of drug treatment attendance. (1999)
Auteurs :	D.S. SVIKIS ; N. HAUG ; E. JOHNSON ; R.W. PICKENS ; W. SCHWEITZER ; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Baltimore. MD. USA
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	American journal of public health (vol. 89, n° 5, 1999)
Pagination :	752-755
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Toxicomanie ; Toxicomane ; Homme ; Femme ; Grossesse ; Sevrage ; Paiement ; Salaire ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Epidémiologie ; Evaluation ; Amérique du Nord
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST R0xFn574. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives This study examined weekly patterns of drug trentment attendance in relation to date of welfare payment receipt and reason for treatment absence. Methods Treatment attendance by Medicaid-eligible pregnant women who were drug dependent was examined by culendar week over a 29-month period. Results. Time series analyses showed that attendance was lower during week 1 than week 4 Drug use was the most frequently reported reason for treatment absence during week 1 (25%) but was not reported as a reason ding week 3. Conclusions. Drug-dependent outpatients of increased absences associated W ith illicit drug use during the first week of the months when welfare payments were received. The generalizability of the findings is unknown.

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