An exploratory analysis of treatment completion and client and organizational factors using hierarchical linear modeling

Factors associated with substance use treatment completion in residential facilities

“…Referral methods, in particular criminal justice referral, have been shown to be positively associated with treatment completion (Arndt et al, 2013). The association of organizational factors with treatment completion has been explored in the literature (Woodward et al, 2006(Woodward et al, , 2008. Also, an emerging literature has examined racial and ethnic disparities in treatment completion (Bluthenthal et al, 2007;Arndt et al, 2013;Guerrero et al, 2013;Saloner and Lê Cook, 2013).…”

Program and Client Characteristics as Predictors of the Availability of Social Support Services in Community-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Programs

“…31 In the present study, the programs' modalities were collapsed into three primary treatment modalities consistent with other major analyses. Facilities within the sample were stratified to represent the types of care available in the nation's treatment system and included seven modalities: (1) hospital inpatient, (2) non-hospital residential, (3) outpatient-almost exclusively alcohol, (4) outpatient-predominately methadone, (5) outpatient-predominately non-methadone, (6) outpatient-combined methadone and non-methadone, and (7) other facilities where type of care was not specified.…”

“…However, as Woodward et al 31 note in their recent analysis of ADSS data from 1997, more current data of this type of sample of organizations are not likely to be available in the foreseeable future. However, as Woodward et al 31 note in their recent analysis of ADSS data from 1997, more current data of this type of sample of organizations are not likely to be available in the foreseeable future.…”

Program Structure and Counselor–Client Contact in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment

“…Clients tend to have better treatment outcomes when more counseling sessions (Fiorentine and Anglin 1996, 1997) and case management services (McLellan et al 1999) are provided and when counselor caseloads are low (McCaughrin and Price 1992; Woodward et al 2006). While the ideal is to provide appropriate personal contact hours and lower client‐to‐counselor ratios, programs experience pressures from funding sources and monitoring organizations to do more with less, and cuts are often made in personnel and in nonsubstance abuse specific services (Hubbard et al 1989; Etheridge et al 1995).…”