Psychiatry Information in Brief

Article Title

The Impact of Health-Related Quality of Life on Retention in Drug Treatment Courts [English and Spanish versions]

Authors

Ekaterina Pivovarova, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow

Document Type

Research in the Works

Publication Date

2017-12

DOI

10.7191/pib.1120

Abstract

A Spanish translation of this publication is available to download under "Additional Files."

This Research in the Works describes Ekaterina Pivovarova’s new study The Impact of Health-Related Quality of Life on Retention in Drug Treatment Courts. Past research has focused on Drug Treatment Court dropouts as a function of participant characteristics (e.g., age, criminal history) or treatment program features (e.g., frequency of DTC hearings). Identifying individuals most likely to dropout and helping them to remain in treatment programs is critical to decreasing substance use in this population. This study proposes to shift the focus to health-related Quality of Life (QOL) and its impact on DTC dropout.

Subject Area

Legal Issues, Rehabilitation/Recovery

Keywords

QOL, Quality of Life, substance use, addiction, Drug Treatment Courts, DTC, health, research, study, Spanish

Repository Citation

Pivovarova E. The Impact of Health-Related Quality of Life on Retention in Drug Treatment Courts [English and Spanish versions]. Psychiatry Information in Brief 14(13):1120. https://doi.org/10.7191/pib.1120. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/pib/vol14/iss13/1

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