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Assessing sex differences on treatment effectiveness from the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS)
(Evaluer la différence d'efficacité du traitement selon le sexe à partir des résultats de l'étude DATOS.)
Auteur(s) :
ACHARYYA, S. ;
ZHANG, H.
Année :
2003
Page(s) :
415-444
Langue(s) :
Anglais
ISBN :
0095-2990
Refs biblio. :
26
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus mots-clés
TRAITEMENT
;
EFFICACITE
;
COMPARAISON
;
SEXE FEMININ
;
SEXE MASCULIN
;
MODELE STATISTIQUE
;
EPIDEMIOLOGIE DESCRIPTIVE
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Note générale :
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (The), 2003, 29, (2), 415-444
Note de contenu :
graph. ; tabl.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
Men and women entering drug treatment programs are known to differ in demographic characteristics and psychosocial behavioral patterns. To be effective, any such program that caters to individuals from both sexes should identify and address these gender-based variations. Studies have also reported clinical differences in the effect of drugs on men and women addicts. Here, we examine whether the treatment is equally effective on men and women, when several demographic covariates are controlled. We construct a "problem severity index" to categorize individuals based on how acute their problems were at the start of the program. We also examine how the choice of treatment modality affects treatment success. Cumulative logit models were used in our analysis. The choice of treatment modality is sex specific, although sex did not appear to be a significant factor for treatment effectiveness when we controlled for other explanatory variables. (Author' s abstract)
Affiliation :
Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale Univ. School of Medicine, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8034. Email : heping.zhangyale.edu
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.