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- Title
Gender differences in seven-year alcohol and drug treatment outcomes among older adults.
- Authors
Satre, Derek D; Blow, Frederic C; Chi, Felicia W; Weisner, Constance
- Abstract
This study examined participants at seven-year follow-up to assess long-term outcomes of older women (n = 25) and men (n = 59) ages 55 and over in an outpatient addiction program. It measured demographic characteristics, alcohol and drug use, psychiatric symptoms, Addiction Severity Index, treatment length, and outcomes. At seven years, 76.0% of women reported abstinence in the prior 30 days versus 54.2% of men, p = .05. Logistic regression analysis found that longer treatment stay predicted abstinence. Findings indicate that older women have better long-term addiction outcome than older men, but treatment length is more significant than gender in predicting outcome.
- Publication
The American journal on addictions, 2007, Vol 16, Issue 3, p216
- ISSN
1055-0496
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/10550490701375673