A MEASURE OF READINESS FOR SUBSTANCE-ABUSE TREATMENT - PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE RAATE-R INTERVIEW

The Recovery Attitude and Treatment Evaluator-Research (RAATE-R) scale is a structured interview that assesses readiness for substance abuse treatment in five subscales: resistance to treatment, resistance to c ontinuing care, biomedical acuity, psychological acuity, and environme ntal/social problems. Psychometric properties, based on an interrater reliability analysis of 23 raters and administration of the scale to 1 16 cocaine-dependent outpatients, included high interrater reliability , high internal consistency, independence of subscales, and a factor s tructure that partially supports the scale's original design. The auth ors discuss limitations of these conclusions and the lack of concurren t validity with a self-report measure of therapy readiness.