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Characteristics of men with substance use disorder consequent to illicit drug use: comparison of a random sample and volunteers
(Caractéristiques d'une cohorte d'hommes présentant des troubles consécutifs à l'usage de drogues illicites : comparaison entre un échantillon randomisé et un échantillon de volontaires)
Auteur(s) :
REYNOLDS, M. D. ;
TARTER, R. E. ;
KIRISCI, L.
Année
2004
Page(s) :
241-251
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
32
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
USAGER
;
TROUBLES DU COMPORTEMENT
;
COHORTE
;
COMPARAISON
;
EPIDEMIOLOGIE DESCRIPTIVE
Note générale :
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2004, 75, (3), 241-251
Note de contenu :
ann. ; fig. ; tabl.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
Objective: Men qualifying for substance use disorder (SUD) consequent to consumption of an illicit drug were compared according to recruitment method. It was hypothesized that volunteers would be more self-disclosing and exhibit more severe disturbances compared to randomly recruited subjects. Methods: Personal, demographic, family, social, substance use, psychiatric, and SUD characteristics of volunteers (N = 146) were compared to randomly recruited (N = 102) subjects. Results: Volunteers had lower socioceconomic status, were more likely to be African American, and had lower IQ than randomly recruited subjects: Volunteers also evidenced greater social and family maladjustment and more frequently had received treatment for substance abuse. In addition, lower social desirability response bias was observed in the volunteers. SUD was not more severe in the volunteers; however, they reported a higher lifetime rate of opiate, diet, depressant, and analgesic drug use. Conclusions: Volunteers and randomly recruited subjects qualifying, for SUD consequent to illicit drug use are similar in SUD severity but differ in terms of severity of psychosocial disturbance and history of drug involvement. The factors discriminating volunteers and randomly recruited subjects are well known to impact on outcome, hence they need to be considered in research design, especially when selecting a sampling strategy in treatment research. (Review's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Dept. Pharmaceutical Sci., CEDAR, Sch. Pharmacy, Univ. Pittsburgh, 711 Salk Hall, PA 15261
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.