BARRIERS TO TREATMENT INSTRUMENT: DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOMETRIC ASSESSMENT (DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT).
Contributors: University Of Illinois At Chicago, Health Sciences Center.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Psychology, Psychometrics.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: A 30-item self-administered instrument which identifies barriers to alcohol and other drug treatment for addicted women was developed. This was followed by an assessment of the instrument's psychometric properties.

Using a non-probability sampling method, a total of 132 Allen Barriers to Treatment Instruments (ABTI) were administered to addicted women throughout the state of Illinois, for assessment of internal consistency reliability; convergent validity; criterion-related validity; and construct validity. Ninety-seven of the subjects were women needing treatment but not receiving it, and 35 of the subjects were women in treatment. In addition, a panel of expert judges was used to assess content validity of the instrument.

The findings demonstrated that the ABTI was an instrument which yielded valid and reliable data. The findings also revealed eight barriers identified by the women in the sample as keeping them from getting treatment for their addictions to alcohol and other drugs 'a lot'.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-05, Section: B, page: 2578.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, 1992.

School code: 0806.