Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10303089 | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment | 2005 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
The Women, Co-occurring Disorders, and Violence Study (WCDVS) was a multi-site cooperative study to evaluate new service models for women with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders and a history of physical and/or sexual abuse. Despite common features in the service interventions and evaluation procedures, diversity across the nine sites plus differences introduced by non-random assignment led to numerous methodological challenges. This article describes the design, measurement, and analysis decisions behind the WCDVS and lays the foundation for understanding participant-level outcomes and service costs. This article also describes the study population, as recruited and following attrition at the 6-month follow-up, in order to address the threat of selection bias to inferences drawn from this multi-site study.
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Authors
G.J. McHugo, N. Kammerer, E.W. Jackson, L.S. Markoff, M. Gatz, M.J. Larson, R. Mazelis, K. Hennigan,