Citation

Webster JM, Staton-Tindall M, Duvall JL, Garrity TF, Leukefeld CG. Subst. Use Misuse 2007; 42(7): 1187-1205.

Affiliation

Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0086, USA. matt.webster@uky.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10826080701409800

PMID

17668332

Abstract

Employment has been identified as an important predictor of drug abuse treatment outcome; however, employment has been measured in a variety of different ways in the drug abuse literature and typically with community samples. The present IRB-approved study used factor analysis to identify commonalities among several employment measures collected from a sample of drug court offenders who entered one of two Kentucky drug courts between March 2000 and November 2002. Measures included demographics, employment, substance use, and criminality. The factor analysis produced four employment factors: status, earnings, duration, and stability. These factors had different correlation patterns with substance use and criminality. Study limitations are noted.

Language: en