Measuring employment among substance-using offenders

J. Matthew Webster; Michele Staton-Tindall; Jamieson L. Duvall; Thomas F. Garrity; Carl G. Leukefeld

doi:10.1080/10826080701409800

Measuring employment among substance-using offenders

J. Matthew Webster, Michele Staton-Tindall, Jamieson L. Duvall, Thomas F. Garrity, Carl G. Leukefeld

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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. This study was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1187-1205
Number of pages	19
Journal	Substance Use and Misuse
Volume	42
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10826080701409800
State	Published - Jun 2007

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This study was supported by Grant R01 DA113076 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse; Carl G. Leukefeld, principal investigator; and the staff and resources of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky. Portions of this article were presented at the conference, Employment and Drug Abuse, at the University of Kentucky, April 2005. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent the position of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Funding

This study was supported by Grant R01 DA113076 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse; Carl G. Leukefeld, principal investigator; and the staff and resources of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky. Portions of this article were presented at the conference, Employment and Drug Abuse, at the University of Kentucky, April 2005. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent the position of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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Center for Drug and Alcohol Research
National Institute on Drug Abuse
University of Kentucky

Keywords

Drug court
Employment
Measurement

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Health(social science)
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Psychiatry and Mental health

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