High Psychiatric Symptom Severity is a Moderator of Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes Among Women in Single Vs. Mixed Gender Group Treatment

Overview

Journal Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse

Publisher Informa Healthcare

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2008 Sep 30

PMID 18821452

Citations 15

Authors

Shelly F Greenfield

Jennifer Sharpe Potter

Melissa F Lincoln

Rebecca E Popuch

Laura Kuper

Robert J Gallop

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Abstract

Objective: This exploratory study examined psychiatric symptom severity as a moderator of outcomes among women receiving either the Women's Recovery Group (WRG), a new manualized group treatment for substance use disorders combining single-gender group composition and women-focused content, or Group Drug Counseling (GDC), an empirically supported mixed-gender group treatment.

Methods: We used a mixed model analysis of variance.

Results: We found a significant 3-way interaction effect of treatment condition, time, and baseline Brief Symptom Inventory scores as well as Beck Depression Inventory scores.

Conclusion: Single-gender group treatment may confer added benefit for women with substance abuse and high psychiatric symptom severity than mixed-gender treatment.

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