CLIENT ENGAGEMENT IN DRUG TREATMENT

描述：(申请人摘要) 本申请表为导师研究科学家发展奖(RSDA) 根据审查委员会的建议进行了修订。这个 获奖将促进我从社会学和专业的职业生涯过渡 对药物滥用研究的评价。它还将提供机会 把我的研究精力集中在有意义但研究不足的地方 研究问题，这将使我提高我的统计能力， 方法和其他研究技能。“多重导师制” 该方法将用于M.Douglas Anglin，Ph.D. 加州大学洛杉矶分校药物滥用研究中心(DARC)将担任主要导师，以及 加州大学洛杉矶分校心理学、社会学和统计学的其他学者，以及 将提供统计、方法论和其他研究方面的专业知识 问题。RSDA将用于完成和扩展以下研究 系统检视“警醒”的潜在前因后果 参与治疗，使用治疗参与度理论模型 为拟议的调查而开发的。研究设计与研究方法 所提议的研究中，有六个研究项目。其中五个 项目涉及申请人参与的原始数据收集工作 首席调查员或联合首席调查员。第六项研究包括 药物滥用治疗结果研究(DATOS)的二次分析。 对其他DARC数据集的二次分析将作为 这是必要的。研究策略是使用初步的分析来回答 三角测量和扩展的问题和二次分析 初步分析的结果。多变量分析包括 客户端和程序的结构方程和层次建模 治疗参与度和客户参与度后果的预测因子 将会进行。揭示的经验差距和悬而未决的问题 这些分析将成为未来研究建议的基础，这些建议将 在RSDA期间提交。未来需要解决的一个领域 研究涉及了解药物治疗如何以及为什么对某些人有效 个人，特别是那些完全从事治疗的人。建议数 研究将探索关于以下因素后果的重要假设 治疗参与度和未来的研究将调查最多 在这一主题上存在重要的经验差距。拟议的研究将导致 一些经验和理论的贡献发表在主要的 科学期刊，以及研究结果、结论和启示 整个作品将汇编成一本六章的书。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) This application for a Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (RSDA) has been revised according to the suggestions of the Review Committee. The award will facilitate my career transition from sociology and program evaluation to drug abuse research. It will also offer the opportunity to concentrate my research energies on significant but under-researched research questions, and it will allow me to improve my statistical, methodological and other research skills. A ''multiple-mentorship'' approach will be utilized in that M. Douglas Anglin, Ph.D., Director of the UCLA Drug Abuse Research Center (DARC), will act as the primary mentor, and other scholars in psychology, sociology, and statistics at UCLA, and at DARC, will offer expertise in statistical, methodological and other research issues. The RSDA will be used to complete and extend research that systematically examines the potential causes and consequences of "vigilant" participation in treatment, using a treatment engagement theoretical model developed for the proposed investigation. The research design and methods of the proposed research utilize six research projects. Five of these projects involve prima data collection efforts in which the applicant is either the Principal or Co-Principal Investigator. The sixth study includes a secondary analysis of the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS). Secondary analyses of additional DARC datasets will be conducted as necessary. The research strategy is to use the primary analyses to answer the questions and the secondary analyses to triangulate and extend the findings of the primary analyses. Multivariate analyses including structural equations and hierarchical modeling of client and program predictors of treatment engagement and client consequences of engagement will be conducted. The empirical gaps and unanswered questions revealed by these analyses will be the basis for future research proposals that will be submitted during the RSDA period. One area that will be addressed in future research involves understanding how and why drug treatment works for some individuals, particularly those who fully engage in treatment. The proposed research will explore important hypotheses concerning the consequences of treatment engagement and the future research will investigate the most important empirical gaps on the topic. The proposed research will result in a number of empirical and theoretical contributions published in major scientific journals, and the findings conclusions, and implications of the entire body of work will be compiled in a six-chapter book.