RETENTION OF DRIVING-UNDER-THE-INFLUENCE OFFENDERS IN ALCOHOLISM TREATMENT

The race, age, education, marital status, employment status, occupational level, prior treatment status, and SCL-90-R Global Severity Index scores of 244 men admitted to a 90-day outpatient treatment program for alcoholism, following their arrests for driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol, were analyzed to determine whether or not these psychosocial characteristics were related to completing treatment. A stepwise discriminant analysis indicated that age, the SCL-90-R Global Severity Index, and current employment differentiated between offenders who completed and did not complete treatment. Older employed men complaining of less intense symptoms were more likely to finish treatment than younger unemployed men complaining of more intense symptoms.

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  Elsevier Scientific Publishers Ireland Limited

  P.O. Box 85
  Limerick,   Ireland 
• Authors:
  • Steer, R A
• Publication Date: 1983-8

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 93-96
• Serial:
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0376-8716
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03768716

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Driver education; Drivers; Drunk driving; Employment; Human characteristics; Race
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver age; Driver characteristics; Treatment programs
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00392257
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 361
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 28 1985 12:00AM