TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Women, Co-occurring Disorders, and Violence Study: Evaluation design and study population
JO  - Journal of substance abuse treatment
A1  - McHugo, G. J.
A1  - Kammerer, Nina
A1  - Jackson, Elizabeth W.
A1  - Markoff, Laurie S.
A1  - Gatz, Margaret
A1  - Larson, Michael J.
A1  - Mazelis, Ruta
A1  - Hennigan, Karen
SP  - 91
EP  - 107
VL  - 28
IS  - 2
N2  - 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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SN  - 0740-5472
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2004.08.009
ID  - ref1
ER  -