Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study--Adolescent (DATOS-A), 1993-1995: [United States] (ICPSR 3404)
Alternate Title: DATOS-A, 1993-1995
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse
Summary:
Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study - Adolescent (DATOS-A) was a multisite, prospective, community-based, longitudinal study of adolescents entering treatment. It was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of adolescent drug treatment by investigating the characteristics of the adolescent population, the structure and process of drug abuse treatment in adolescent programs, and the relationship of these factors with outcomes. Three major types or modalities of programs included in the study were chemical dependency or short-term inpatient (STI), therapeutic community or residential (RES), and outpatient drug-free (ODF). The adolescent battery of instruments included intake, intreatment, and follow-up questionnaires based largely on the DATOS adult study DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT OUTCOME STUDY (DATOS), 1991-1994: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 2258) instrument format, with considerable tailoring to the adolescent population. Clients entering treatment completed two comprehensive intake interviews (Intake 1 and Intake 2), approximately one week apart. This information is provided in Parts 1 and 2 of the data collection. These interviews were designed to obtain baseline data on drug use and other behaviors, such as illegal involvement, as well as information on background and demographic characteristics, education and training, mental health status, employment, income and expenditures, drug and alcohol dependence, health, religiosity and self-concept, and motivation and readiness for treatment. The one-, three-, and six-month intreatment interviews (Parts 3, 4, and 7) included items on treatment access, intreatment experience, and psychological functioning, as well as questions replicated from some of the domains in the Intake 1 and 2 questionnaires. The 12-month post-treatment follow-up interview (Part 5) included questions replicated from the previous interviews, and also included post-treatment status. Part 6 includes variables for time in treatment and interview availability indicators. The Measures Data (Part 8) were generated by using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Rev. 3rd ed., DSM-III-R) (American Psychiatric Association, 1987). The variables in Part 8 give either the DSM-III-R level of dependence to a drug category or they describe whether the subject meets the DSM-III-R standard for a particular disorder. The 12-Month Follow-up Urine Result data (Part 9) provide the results from urine sample tests that were given to a sample of subjects at the time of the 12-Month Follow-up Interview. The urine test was used to ascertain the nature and extent of bias in the self-reports of the respondents. Urine specimens were tested for eight categories of drugs (amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cannabinoids, cocaine metabolite, methaqualone, opiates, and phencyclidine). The drugs covered in the study were alcohol, tobacco, marijuana (hashish, THC), cocaine (including crack), heroin, narcotics or opiates such as morphine, codeine, Demerol, Dilaudid, and Talwin, illegal methadone, sedatives and tranquilizers such as barbiturates and depressants, amphetamines or other stimulants such as speed or diet pills, methamphetamines, LSD, PCP, and other hallucinogens or psychedelics, and inhalants such as glue, gasoline, paint thinner, and aerosol sprays. The study also included drug of choice, frequency, and route of administration.
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This study is maintained and distributed by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA). SAMHDA is supported by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ), formerly the Office of Applied Studies.
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Study Description
Citation
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse. Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study--Adolescent (DATOS-A), 1993-1995: [United States]. ICPSR03404-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-10-07. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03404.v3
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03404.v3
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Funding
This survey was funded by:
- United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse (U01-DA10377 and N01DA-9-8233)
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: adolescents, AIDS, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, drug treatment, drug use, education, employment, health, HIV, mental health, sexual behavior, substance abuse treatment, tobacco use, treatment outcome, treatment programs
Geographic Coverage: United States
Time Period:
- 1993--1995
Date of Collection:
- 1993--1995
Unit of Observation: individual
Universe: Clients admitted to selected drug treatment programs in the United States in 1993-1995.
Data Types: clinical data, survey data
Data Collection Notes:
Users are advised that the data are most appropriately analyzed by modality.
The Intake 1 and Intake 2 data files contain several continuous variables that denote age at the time of a certain event. For some of these variables, dichotomous codes 1 and 95 were also used for "don't know but under 15" and "don't know but 15 or older," respectively. Code 1 was also used for actual responses of "1 year old." Because it is unlikely that these events occurred at age 1, the code 1 was changed to 94 ("1 or don't know but under 15") in order to make it clearer that this code denotes something other than age 1. Users are cautioned that this may have an effect on any analyses performed using these variables.
Users are advised that some DATOS-A publications exclude data from two sites that had low response rates. However, the public use files include data from all six sites.
DATOS-A is an ongoing collaborative research effort of the National Development and Research Institutes at North Carolina (NDRI), Texas Christian University, the University of California at Los Angeles, and NIDA. For additional information, see the DATOS Web site.
Conducted by the Coordinating DATOS Research Center at the National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), North Carolina, and collaborating research centers at Texas Christian University and the University of California at Los Angeles, with data collected by the Research Triangle Institute.
Methodology
Sample: Six cities located in different sections of the United States were selected for the study because they each had a sufficient number of adolescent programs to support the research design. All six cities were medium to large metropolitan areas with established treatment systems. These cities were a subset of the sites for the DATOS adult study DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT OUTCOME STUDY (DATOS), 1991-1994: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 2258). Treatment programs were purposefully sampled and included (1) programs that treated an adolescent population separately from an adult population and (2) programs with projected patient admissions of at least five patients per month. Thirty-seven programs participated in the study. Respondents were sampled from among those admitted to treatment in 1993-1995. A total of 3,382 clients participated in the Intake interview. Of those, 2,258 participated in the one-month intreatment interview, 1,120 participated in the three-month intreatment interview, and 1,785 participated in the 12-month follow-up. The intake treatment sample was 74 percent male, 24 percent African American, and 21 percent Hispanic, with a mean age of between 15 and 16 years and a mean of 9 years education. Over half had some juvenile or criminal justice status at admission, two-thirds had no prior drug treatment experience, and the predominant drug-use patterns included weekly or daily use of marijuana alone or combined with alcohol. For the urine testing that was done at the 12 month follow-up, 25 percent of the respondents interviewed at follow-up were randomly selected to provide a urine sample for testing. A total of 464 respondents were asked to provide a specimen. Urine specimens suitable for testing were obtained for 417, and results were available for 362 respondents and analyzed at a NIDA-certified laboratory.
Mode of Data Collection: face-to-face interview
Response Rates: 2,974 of the clients who completed the intake interview were selected as eligible for the 12-month follow-up interview (reasons for ineligibility include incarceration, hospitalization, language barrier, and living outside of the metropolitan interviewing area). Of these eligible clients, 65.9 percent (n = 1,960) were located, 60 percent (n = 1,785) were successfully interviewed, .5 percent (n = 14) were deceased, and 5.4 percent (n = 161) refused to participate.
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed consistency checks.
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Standardized missing values.
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 2004-02-05
Version History:
- 2008-10-07 The question text was updated to enhance the clarity of each question by adding question stems and qualifying information. Also, minor typographical errors were corrected.
- 2007-02-19 SAS transport (XPORT), SPSS portable, and Stata system files were added to Parts 1-5. Some corrections were made to the codebooks.
- 2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
- 2004-06-23 Three datasets were added to the study: 6-Month Intreatment Data (Part 7), Measures Data (Part 8, and 12-Month Follow-Up Urine Result Data (Part 9). Corresponding documentation was prepared for each. Value labels were added for one variable (MUSA) in Part 5, 12-Month Follow-Up Data.
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DS1: Intake 1 Data
Altogether in your lifetime, approximately how many outpatient visits have you had for treatment for nerves, emotions, or mental health?
Have any of your relatives ever had any mental health or emotional problems? Just include those who are related to you by blood.
How many times have you ever stayed overnight for treatment of emotions, nerves, or your mental health at a community mental health center?
How many times have you ever had outpatient treatment or counseling for a mental health or emotional problem other than those associated with drug or alcohol use at a community mental health center?
Altogether in your lifetime, what is the total number of days you have stayed overnight for treatment primarily for emotions, nerves, or mental health?
How old were you the first time you were admitted or stayed overnight somewhere for treatment of a mental health problem?
When was the last time you stayed overnight for treatment of emotions, nerves, or mental health?
When was the last time you received outpatient treatment for nerves, emotions, or mental health?
In the 12 months before admission to this program, did you have any mental health or emotional problems because of your alcohol or drug use?
How important to you now is treatment or counseling for emotional, nervous, or mental health problems? Would you say . . .
DS2: Intake 2 Data
What were you admitted for then?
For what condition were you receiving this disability pension? First mention
For what condition were you receiving this disability pension? Second mention
For what condition were you receiving this disability pension? Third mention
DS3: 1-Month Intreatment Data
How important to you now is treatment or counseling for emotional, nervous, or mental health problems? Would you say . . .
Where have you received these services? Mental health center
Where have you received these services? Community mental health center outpatient program
Next, I'd like to ask some questions about other scheduled individual or group services that you may have received since your admission. These services may be any counseling, treatment, or other help that you have received from a professional (such as a medical doctor, psychiatrist, or case manager). Do not include any services that we have already talked about or that you have received on an unscheduled basis. Since your admission, have you received any scheduled individual or group services for emotional or mental health problems other than the services that I have already asked about?
Where have you received these services? A community mental health center
How many nights have you stayed at a community mental health center?
Where have you stayed since your admission for this kind of treatment? A community mental health center
Since your admission, have you taken any prescribed medication on a regular basis for a mental health or emotional problem?
Are you currently taking any medications prescribed by a doctor for a mental health or emotional problem?
Since your admission, have you had any mental health or emotional problems because of your drug or alcohol use?
DS4: 3-Month Intreatment Data
How important to you now is treatment or counseling for emotional, nervous, or mental health problems? Would you say . . .
Where have you received these services? Mental health center.
Where have you received these services? Community mental health center outpatient program.
Next, I'd like to ask some questions about other scheduled individual or group services that you may have received during the past 3 months. These services may be any counseling, treatment, or other help that you have received from a professional (such as a medical doctor, psychiatrist, or case manager). Do not include any services that we have already talked about or that you have received on an unscheduled basis. During the past 3 months, have you received any scheduled individual or group services for emotional or mental health problems other than the services that 1 have already asked about?
Where have you received these services? A community mental health center.
How many nights have you stayed at a community mental health center?
Where have you stayed since your admission for this kind of treatment? A community mental health center.
In the past 3 months, have you taken any prescribed medication on a regular basis for a mental health or emotional problem?
Are you currently taking any medications prescribed by a doctor for a mental health or emotional problem?
In the past 3 months, have you had any mental health or emotional problems because of your drug or alcohol use?
DS5: 12-Month Follow-Up Data
Which services were you referred to? Mental health center / private practitioner / school counselor or psychologist.
During the past 12 months, how many times have you received any scheduled individual or group services for emotional or mental health problems?
In the 12 months before admission, did you take any prescribed medications on a regular basis for a mental health or emotional problem?
In the past 12 months, have you taken any prescribed medications on a regular basis for a mental health or emotional problem?
In the past 12 months, have you had any mental health or emotional problems because of your drug or alcohol use?
In the past 12 months, have you had any emotional or mental health problems that were not the result of your using drugs or alcohol?
While you were in treatment at (NAME OF PROGRAM), did you receive treatment, including counseling or other treatment, for any emotional or mental health problems other than problems associated with drugs or alcohol use?
During the past 12 months, have you stayed overnight anywhere for treatment of emotional or mental health problems other than for problems associated with drugs or alcohol use?
Was getting this help your own idea, or did your school, a program, a parent or guardian, other relative, a friend, or someone else suggest it? Private therapist or mental health center.
Did you receive any treatment or services provided by the (NAME OF PROGRAM) staff during that admission? That is, did you receive any kind of help, such as alcohol or drug abuse counseling, medical treatment, counseling for an emotional or mental health problem, employment, vocational, family, or education counseling, or any other service?
DS7: 6-Month Intreatment Data
How important to you now is treatment or counseling for emotional, nervous, or mental health problems? Would you say . . .
Where have you received these services? Mental health center.
Where have you received these services? Community mental health center outpatient program.
Next, I'd like to ask some questions about other scheduled individual or group services that you may have received during the past 3 months. These services may be any counseling, treatment, or other help that you have received from a professional (such as a medical doctor, psychiatrist, or case manager). Do not include any services that we have already talked about or that you have received on an unscheduled basis. During the past 3 months, have you received any scheduled individual or group services for emotional or mental health problems other than the services that I have already asked about?
Where have you received these services? A community mental health center.
How many nights have you stayed at a community mental health center?
Where have you stayed since your admission for this kind of treatment? A community mental health center.
In the past 3 months, have you taken any prescribed medication on a regular basis for a mental health or emotional problem?
Are you currently taking any medications prescribed by a doctor for a mental health or emotional problem?
In the past 3 months, have you had any mental health or emotional problems because of your drug or alcohol use?
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