Year: 2006
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Adolescents and young adults are the fastest growing populations in substance use treatment programs. After leaving treatment, many of these young people are faced with the challenge of negotiating the abstinence hostile environment of higher education. To meet the needs of this population, Texas Tech University has the Collegiate Recovery Community, which is the only one of its kind in the country. Members of this recovery community were surveyed during the spring 2004 academic term. Using the data collected, three hypotheses were tested. No support was found for the hypothesis that males would have higher scores on measures of risk for relapse than females. No support was found for the hypothesis that length of recovery would be positively associated with scores on measures of support for abstinence and negatively associated with measures of risk for relapse. Exploratory analyses of differences in network support and risk revealed possible directions for future research and investigation.
Author: Richard Herbert
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2238056230