Description & Citation--Study No. 23540

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:23540
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23540
 
Title:National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2007 [United States]
 
Alternate Title:N-SSATS, 2007
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies
 
Series:National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) Series
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies
 
Bibliographic Citation:United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies. National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2007 [United States] [Computer file]. ICPSR23540-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-01-27. doi:10.3886/ICPSR23540
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) is designed to collect information from all facilities in the United States, both public and private, that provide substance abuse treatment. N-SSATS provides the mechanism for quantifying the dynamic character and composition of the United States substance abuse treatment delivery system. The objectives of N-SSATS are to collect multipurpose data that can be used to assist the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and state and local governments in assessing the nature and extent of services provided and in forecasting treatment resource requirements, to update SAMHSA's Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS), to analyze general treatment services trends, and to generate the National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs and its online equivalent, the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator (link). Data are collected on topics including ownership, services offered (assessment and pre-treatment, pharmacotherapies, testing, transitional, ancillary), detoxification, primary focus (substance abuse, mental health, both, general health, and other), hotline operation, methadone/buprenorphine dispensing, counseling and therapeutic approaches, languages in which treatment is provided, type of treatment provided, number of clients (total and under age 18), number of beds, types of payment accepted, sliding fee scale, special programs offered, facility accreditation and licensure/certification, and managed care agreements.
 
Subject Term(s):alcohol abuse, drug abuse, drug treatment, health care services, intervention, substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, treatment facilities, treatment programs
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:2007
 
Date(s) of Collection:March 30, 2007 - October 17, 2007
 
Unit of Observation:facility
 
Universe:The 2007 N-SSATS facility universe included all 16,146 active treatment facilities on SAMHSA's I-SATS at a point 6 weeks prior to the survey reference date. There were 627 facilities added by State substance abuse agencies or discovered during the first 3 weeks of the survey that were also included in the survey universe, increasing the total survey universe to 16,773.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:Data were collected by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ, and prepared for release by Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., Arlington, VA.
 
  N-SSATS is a point-prevalence survey. It provides information on the substance abuse treatment system and its clients on the reference date (March 30, 2007). Client counts do not represent annual totals. Rather, N-SSATS provides a "snapshot" of substance abuse treatment facilities and clients on an average day.
 
  N-SSATS collects data about facilities, not individual clients. Data on clients represent an aggregate of clients in treatment for each reporting facility.
 
  N-SSATS attempts to obtain responses from all known treatment and prevention facilities, but it is a voluntary survey. There is no adjustment for the approximately 5 percent facility nonresponse.
 
  To protect the privacy of respondents, financial data originally collected have been removed from the public use file. These modifications should not affect most analytic uses of the public use file.
 

Methodology

Sample:The Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS) provides the sampling frame for N-SSATS. Two categories of treatment facilities in I-SATS may be distinguished. The largest group of facilities includes those that are licensed, certified, or otherwise approved by the state substance abuse agency to provide substance abuse treatment. The second group represents the SAMHSA effort in recent years to make I-SATS as comprehensive as possible by including treatment facilities that state substance abuse agencies, for a variety of reasons, do not license or certify. Many of these facilities are private, for-profit, small group practices, or hospital-based programs.
 
Mode of Data Collection:mail questionnaire
 
  telephone interview
 
  web-based survey
 
Response Rates:N-SSATS questionnaires were mailed to a total of 16,773 facilities believed to offer substance abuse treatment services. Of these facilities, 9.4 percent were found to be ineligible for the survey because they had closed or did not provide substance abuse treatment or detoxification on March 30, 2007. Of the remaining 15,188 facilities, 94.5 percent (14,359) completed the survey. However, 408 of these facilities were deemed to be out of scope, and an additional 303 facilities reported client counts included in or "rolled into" other facilities' counts and whose facility characteristics were not reported separately. Therefore, the final sample size was 13,648 (89.9 percent). The percentage of respondents who completed the survey via the mail was 35.5, while 44.0 percent completed the survey via telephone, and 20.5 percent completed the survey using a Web-based questionnaire.
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Some instruments administered as part of this study may contain contents from copyrighted instruments. Reproductions of the instruments are provided solely as documentation for the analysis of the data associated with this collection. Please contact the data producers for information on permissions to use the instruments for other purposes.
 
Restrictions:Users are reminded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that these data are to be used solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information and not for the investigation of specific individuals or treatment facilities.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2009-01-27
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2007 [United States]
 
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